the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 35:8
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No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
Your wickedness [may hurt] a man as you are; And your righteousness [may profit] a son of man.
Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself, and the good you do only helps other human beings.
Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.
"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].
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
Thi wickidnesse schal anoie a man, which is lijk thee; and thi riytfulnesse schal helpe the sone of a man.
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of men.
The evil or good you do only affects other humans.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Your wickedness can affect only others like you, and your righteousness only other human beings.
Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
Job, the good and bad things you do affect only other people like yourself.
Thy wickedness concerneth a man as thou art; and thy righteousness a son of man.
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profit the sonne of man.
Your wrong-doing may hurt another man and your being right and good may help him.
Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.
Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself.
Others suffer from your sins, and the good you do helps them.
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
Thy wickednesse [may hurt] a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse [may profite] the sonne of man.
Thy ungodliness may affect a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,and your righteousness, a son of man.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans.
Your wickedness is for a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
Of soch an vngodly personne as thou, & of ye sonne of man that is rightuous as thou pretendest to be:
"Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.
Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.
"Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.
Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,And your righteousness is for a son of man.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
may hurt: Joshua 7:1-5, Joshua 22:20, Ecclesiastes 9:18, Jonah 1:12
may profit: Job 42:8, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 18:24-33, Genesis 19:29, Psalms 106:23, Psalms 106:30, Ezekiel 22:30, Acts 27:24, Hebrews 11:7
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:24 - for our good Psalms 16:2 - my goodness Titus 3:8 - good
Cross-References
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord .
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art],.... But not God: a man may hurt himself by his wickedness; his body, by bringing various diseases upon it, through debauchery and intemperance; his family and estate, by wasting it; his soul, for every sin is a wrong and injury to a man's soul, and exposes it to ruin and destruction: and sin does even a good man harm, since it breaks in upon his peace, and hinders his communion with God; and the wickedness of men may harm others like themselves, frail, mortal, sinful creatures, and easily led aside by ill examples; as well as there are many sins which do injury to the persons, families, and estates of others, as murder, adultery, theft, c. and since sin is harmful to others, God resents it, and punishes for it, though, strictly speaking, it cannot harm him in the sense before given
and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man; may profit a man himself ( :-), and others, but neither for justification before God; but godliness is profitable to a man's self, both for this life and that to come, and good works are profitable to other men; for what reasons they are to be performed and maintained, see 1 Timothy 4:8. Some are of real and direct profit to men, as acts of beneficence to them, and all as being examples to them; but then no works of righteousness can be profitable to God, they adding nothing to him; which is what Elihu undertook to answer to.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy wickedness may hurt a Man as thou art - That is, it may injure him, but not God. He is too far exalted above man, and too independent of man in his sources of happiness, to be affected by what he can do. The object of the whole passage Job 35:6-8 is, to show that God is independent of people, and is not governed in his dealings with them on the principles which regulate their conduct with each other. One man may be greatly benefited by the conduct of another, and may feel under obligation to reward him for it; or he maybe greatly injured in his person, property, or reputation, by another, and will endeavor to avenge himself. But nothing of this kind can happen to God. If he rewards, therefore, it must be of his grace and mercy, not because he is laid under obligation; if he inflicts chastisement, it must be because people deserve it, and not because God has been injured. In this reasoning Elihu undoubtedly refers to Job, whom he regards as having urged a “claim” to a different kind of treatment, because he supposed that he “deserved” it. The general principle of Elihu is clearly correct, that God is entirely independent of human beings; that neither our good nor evil conduct can effect his happiness, and that consequently his dealings with us are those of impartial justice.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 35:8. Thy wickedness may hurt] It is better to translate this literally:
To a man like thyself is thy wickedness:
And to the son of man, thy righteousness:
That is: -
Thou mayest injure thyself and others by thy wickedness,
And thou mayest benefit both by thy righteousness;
But God thou canst neither hurt nor profit.
