Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Cross References
Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Treasury of Scripture
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
may hurt
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…
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.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
may profit
Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
