Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
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
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
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans.
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.
Interlinear
Ts@daqah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 35:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Condemns Job
7 If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive? 8 For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness. 9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:2
And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
Genesis 18:24-33
peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who are in its midst?
Genesis 19:29
And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Joshua 7:1-5
And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, taketh of the devoted thing, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against the sons of Israel.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and on all the company of Israel there was wrath? and he alone expired not in his iniquity.'
Job 42:8
And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
Psalm 106:23
And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.
Psalm 106:30
And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!
Ezekiel 22:30
And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.
Jonah 1:12
And he saith unto them, 'Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest is upon you.'
Acts 27:24
saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.