Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans.

New American Standard Bible

“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man.

King James Version

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Holman Bible

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,
and your righteousness another human being.

International Standard Version

Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.

A Conservative Version

Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.

American Standard Version

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

Amplified


“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,
And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

Bible in Basic English

Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

Darby Translation

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy injustice to a man as thou: and thy justice to the son of man.

King James 2000

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

Modern King James verseion

Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

of such an ungodly person as thou, and of the son of man that is righteous - as thou pretendest to be?

NET Bible

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

New Heart English Bible

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

The Emphasized Bible

Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.

Webster

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

World English Bible

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

Youngs Literal Translation

For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רשׁע 
Resha` 
Usage: 30

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

as thou art and thy righteousness
צדקה 
Ts@daqah 
Usage: 157

Context Readings

Elihu Condemns Job

7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? 8 Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans. 9 "Because of [the] multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of [the] arm of [the] mighty.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

Genesis 18:24-33

If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep [them] away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?

Genesis 19:29

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Joshua 7:1-5

But the {Israelites} broke faith concerning the devoted things. Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from the devoted things; and {Yahweh's anger was kindled} against the {Israelites}.

Joshua 22:20

Did not Achan son of Zerah commit treachery with devoted things, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? {And he alone} did not perish because of his iniquity.'"

Job 42:8

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

Psalm 106:23

So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them].

Psalm 106:30

Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and [so] the plague was stopped,

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Ezekiel 22:30

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

Jonah 1:12

And he said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea so that the sea may quiet down for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm [has come] upon you all."

Acts 27:24

saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! It is necessary [for] you to stand before Caesar, and behold, God has graciously granted you all who are sailing with you.'

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

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