35:6 If you sin, how does it affect God? 1
If your transgressions are many,
what does it do to him? 2
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God,
or what does he receive from your hand?
35:8 Your wickedness affects only 3 a person like yourself,
and your righteousness only other people. 4
1 tn Heb “him” (also in v. 7); the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn See Job 7:20.
3 tn The phrase “affects only” is supplied in the translation of this nominal sentence.
4 tn Heb “and to [or for] a son of man, your righteousness.”