Christian Standard Bible
Job 34:8
8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Job 34:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- New International Version (NIV)He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked.
- English Standard Version (ESV)who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
Context of Job 34:8
6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.” 7What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water. He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men. 9For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.” 10Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding. It is impossible for God to do wrong, and for the Almighty to act unjustly.
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וְאָרַ֣ח לְ֭חֶבְרָה עִם־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וְ֝לָלֶ֗כֶת עִם־אַנְשֵׁי־רֶֽשַׁע׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 34:8
- Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?
- Job 15:5Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Psalms 1:1How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!
- Psalms 26:4I do not sit with the worthless or associate with hypocrites.
- Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers.
- Psalms 73:12Look at them — the wicked! They are always at ease, and they increase their wealth.
- Proverbs 1:15my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,
- Proverbs 2:12It will rescue you from the way of evil — from anyone who says perverse things,
- Proverbs 4:14Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones.
- Proverbs 13:20The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
Commentaries on Job 34:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity - This is an allusion to a caravan: all kinds of persons are found there; but yet a holy and respectable man might be found in that part of the company where profligates assembled. But surely this assertion of Elihu was not strictly true; and the words literally translated, will bear a less evil meaning: "Job makes a track ארח arach, to join fellowship, לחברה lechebrah, with the workers of iniquity;"…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity - That is, in his sentiments. The idea is, that he advocated the same opinions which they did, and entertained the same views of God and of his government. The same charge had been before brought against him by his friends; see the notes at Job 21.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Job virtually goes in company (makes common cause) with the wicked, by taking up their sentiments (Job 9:22, 23, 30; 21:7-15), or at least by saying, that those who act on such sentiments are unpunished (Mal 3:14). To deny God's righteous government because we do not see the reasons of His acts, is virtually to take part with the ungodly.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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