Catholic Public Domain Version
"Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man. "
— Job 35:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.”
“Thy wickednessmay hurta 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 wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.”
“Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.”
“Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.”
“Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.”
Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?
Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.
Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.
Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,
who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”