Job 35:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
  • Gen 18:24-33 : 24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them. 27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: 28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five. 29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty. 30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. 31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. 32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten. 33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.
  • Gen 19:29 : 29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
  • Josh 7:1-5 : 1 But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel. 2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed. 3 Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town. 4 So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai. 5 The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.
  • Josh 22:20 : 20 Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Ps 106:23 : 23 And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
  • Ps 106:30 : 30 Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.
  • Eccl 9:18 : 18 Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
  • Jonah 1:12 : 12 And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.
  • Acts 27:24 : 24 Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

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  • Job 36:17-18
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  • Job 35:2-3
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    2Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

    3What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Isa 57:12
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    12I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 10:2
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    2Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

  • Job 33:27
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    27He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

  • Job 22:2-3
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    2Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

    3Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

  • Isa 3:10-11
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    10Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

    11Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

  • Prov 11:17-18
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    17The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.

    18The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Job 10:3
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    3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Prov 11:4-5
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    4Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

    5The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • Job 35:9
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    9Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

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    8The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

  • Ezek 33:12
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    12And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Prov 21:7-8
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    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

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    24He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

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    8And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

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    16The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

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    8Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

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    15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

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    5Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

  • Job 27:13
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    13This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

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    6Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

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    26The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

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    27Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • Prov 29:6
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    6In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

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    8Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

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    11For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

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    16The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

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    35In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

  • Hab 2:10
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    10You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.