Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts?

New American Standard Bible

“If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

King James Version

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

Holman Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give Him,
or what does He receive from your hand?

A Conservative Version

If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

American Standard Version

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

Amplified


“If you are righteous, what do you give God,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

Bible in Basic English

If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

Darby Translation

If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

Julia Smith Translation

If thou wert just, what wilt thou give to him? or what shall he take from thy hand?

King James 2000

If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand?

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

Modern King James verseion

If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hands:

NET Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?

New Heart English Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

The Emphasized Bible

If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

Webster

If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?

World English Bible

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Youngs Literal Translation

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou be righteous
צדק 
Tsadaq 
Usage: 41

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

thou him or what receiveth
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

Context Readings

Elihu Condemns Job

6 If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him? 7 If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts? 8 Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.



Cross References

Job 22:2-3

"Can a human being be useful to God, since he, who is wise, is sufficient to himself?

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, your wisdom will assist you. If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.

Romans 11:35

Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?"

Luke 17:10

That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.'"

Psalm 16:2

I told the LORD, "You are my master, I have nothing good apart from you."

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and who are my people, that we make such voluntary offerings as these? For all things come from you, and from your own hand we are giving to you.

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