Job 35:8
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

Young's Literal Translation
For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

King James Bible
Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

Hebrew
Your wickedness
רִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ (riš·‘e·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7562: Wickedness

affects only a man
לְאִישׁ־ (lə·’îš-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

like yourself,
כָּמ֥וֹךָ (kā·mō·w·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

and your righteousness
צִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃ (ṣiḏ·qā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

only a son
וּלְבֶן־ (ū·lə·ḇen-)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of men.
אָ֝דָ֗ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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