Job 35:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

New Living Translation
No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.

English Standard Version
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

Berean Study Bible
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

New American Standard Bible
“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

NASB 1995
"Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

NASB 1977
“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

Amplified Bible
“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you, And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

Christian Standard Bible
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness, a son of man.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being.

Contemporary English Version
The evil or good you do only affects other humans.

Good News Translation
Others suffer from your sins, and the good you do helps them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam.

International Standard Version
Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.

NET Bible
Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

New King James Version
Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.

King James 2000 Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

New Heart English Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

World English Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

American King James Version
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

American Standard Version
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

A Faithful Version
Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.

English Revised Version
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profite the sonne of man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Of soch an vngodly personne as thou, & of ye sonne of man that is rightuous as thou pretendest to be:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, "" And for a son of man your righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thy injustice to a man as thou: and thy justice to the son of man.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee : and thy justice may help the son of man.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Your evil is to your soul, and to your soul is your righteousness

Lamsa Bible
Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy wickedness concerneth a man as thou art; And thy righteousness a son of man.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thy ungodliness may affect a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.
















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