Job 35:8
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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.

Lexicon
Your wickedness
רִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ (riš·‘e·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7562: Wickedness

affects only a man
לְאִישׁ־ (lə·’îš-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

like yourself,
כָּמ֥וֹךָ (kā·mō·w·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3644: Like, as, when

and your righteousness
צִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃ (ṣiḏ·qā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

only a son
וּלְבֶן־ (ū·lə·ḇen-)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

of men.
אָ֝דָ֗ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being


Additional Translations
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of men.Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

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

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

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

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

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.

For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
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