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Job 35:8

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35:8Your wickedness affects only11 a person like yourself,

and your righteousness only other people.12

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Footnotes

  1. 11 The phrase “affects only” is supplied in the translation of this nominal sentence. According to Strahan, “Elihu exalts God’s greatness at the cost of His grace, His transcendence at the expense of His immanence. He sets up a material instead of a spiritual stand of profit and loss. He does not realize that God does gain what He desires most by the goodness of men, and loses what He most loves by their evil.”
  2. 12 Heb “and to [or for] a son of man, your righteousness.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,

and your righteousness a son of man.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,

and your righteousness only other people.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,

and your righteousness, a son of man.

NLTNew Living Translation

No, your sins affect only people like yourself,

and your good deeds also affect only humans.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,

and your righteousness affects humans.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art;

And thy righteousness may profit the son of man.