Bible verse
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Job 35:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 35.
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
KJV
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
ASV
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
ERV
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
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