Job 34:8

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

6Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression. 7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water, And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. 9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God. 10Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!

Job 34:8 word by word

וְאָרַ֣ח לְ֭חֶבְרָה עִם־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וְ֝לָלֶ֗כֶת עִם־אַנְשֵׁי־רֶֽשַׁע׃Read the interlinear

• menאִישׁ'îysh · manH376

Cross-references for Job 34:8

• Job 2:10But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
• Job 11:3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
• Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
• Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;
• Psalms 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
• Psalms 50:18When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
• Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
• Proverbs 1:15— my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
• Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
• Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
• Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

In the dictionaries

• Chastisement
• Choose
• Dust
• Elihu
• Fit
• Company
• Worker; Workfellow; Workman

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