and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Job 35:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit the son of man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man. Common English Bible Your evil affects others like you, and your righteousness affects fellow human beings. Catholic Public Domain Version Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man. |
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thine hand?
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Then stood up Phin´ehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.