Job 22:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honourable man dwelt in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But [you, Job] the man with power possessed the land, and the favored and accepted man dwelt in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Common English Bible

⁸ The powerful own land; the favored live in it.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

Job 22:8 Cross References

Job 12:19

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

Job 13:8

Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?

Job 31:34

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

Psalm 12:8

On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Isaiah 3:3

the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skilful magician and the expert in charms.

Isaiah 9:15

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.