Job 35:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Your wickedness touches and affects a man such as you are, and your righteousness is for yourself, one of the human race [but it cannot touch God, Who is above such influence].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

Common English Bible

⁸ Your evil affects others like you, and your righteousness affects fellow human beings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

Job 35:8 Cross References

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.

Acts 27:24

and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before the emperor, and, indeed, God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you.’

Jonah 1:12

He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great storm has come upon you.”

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good.

Psalm 106:30

Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, and the plague was stopped.

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

Joshua 22:20

Did not Achan son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity!”

Genesis 19:29

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

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Job 35:7

If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

Job 35:9

“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.