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Job 35:8
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Job 35:8 · Bible in Basic English
Job 35:8 in other translations
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
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In context
5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
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