And 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 35:8 - Revised Standard Version Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a 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 you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
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.”
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.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
He said to them, “Take 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 tempest has come upon you.”
and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and lo, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
Did not Achan the 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.’ ”