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Job 35:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 35:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 35:86 words
HebrewMeaning
לְ/אִישׁləʾiyš
is for a personpronH376
another · any · a certain · champion ···
כָּמ֥וֹ/ךָkāmwōkā
like yourselfpronH3644
as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···
רִשְׁעֶ֑/ךָrišəʿekā
wickedness yournounH7562
wicked
וּ/לְ/בֶןwləben
and is for a child ofconjH1121
afflicted · ite · ed one · appointed to ···
אָ֝דָ֗םʾādām
humankindnounH120
another · hypocrite · common sort · low ···
צִדְקָתֶֽ/ךָṣidəqātekā
righteousness yournounH6666
moderately · right (act · -ly · -ness)
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 35:8

Thine iniquity will hurt a man, who is like thee, and thy righteousness will profit the son of man. The iniquity of man hurts him, whom it pollutes by perversion. And, again, our righteousness profits him, whom it converts from his wickedness. For those things cannot either hurt, or profit, which cannot either corrupt from what is good, or change from what is evil. The powers above, then, cannot be either hurt, or profiled, because they have already received to be free from…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 26 §19
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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