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The Book of Job, Chapter 35, Verse 8

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If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
King James Version
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
American Standard Version
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou art; And thy righteousness [may profit] a son of man.
New English Translation
Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
World English Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.
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But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:
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Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on God's behalf.