Job 35:8 · KJV
“Thy wickedness {may hurt} a man as thou {art}; and thy righteousness {may profit} the son of man.”
— Job 35:8
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make {the oppressed} to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35 — Context
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8Thy wickedness {may hurt} a man as thou {art}; and thy righteousness {may profit} the son of man.
9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make {the oppressed} to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10But none saith, Where {is} God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Cross References
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. {moved...: or, being wary}
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Genesis 18:24-33
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that {are} therein?
Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom {is} better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Joshua 7:1-5
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. {Achan: also called, Achar} {Zabdi: also called, Zimri}
Psalms 106:23
Therefore 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}.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.