Job 35:8
Good News Translation
Others suffer from your sins, and the good you do helps them.

New Revised Standard Version
Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.

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

New American Bible
Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself, and your justice, only a fellow human being.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

may hurt

Joshua 7:1-5 But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel. . . .

Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but one man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Jonah 1:12 And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.

may profit

Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 18:24 If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

*etc:

Genesis 19:29 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

Psalm 106:23,30 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. . . .

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.

Acts 27:24 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
7And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand? 8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.9By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.…
Cross References
Job 35:7
And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Job 35:7
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