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Job 34:8
8He is a friend of wicked people, and people who do evil things.
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
6I am right, but nobody believes me. I have not done anything wrong, but I am suffering and I am near to death.” 7There has never been a man like Job! He laughs at God as easily as he drinks water. He is a friend of wicked people, and people who do evil things. 9Job says, “If anyone tries to please God, it does not help them at all.” 10So listen to me, you men who understand so much. Almighty God can never do anything that is wrong or wicked!
Read all of Job 34Job 34:8 word by word
וְאָרַ֣ח לְ֭חֶבְרָה עִם־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וְ֝לָלֶ֗כֶת עִם־אַנְשֵׁי־רֶֽשַׁע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:8
- Job 2:10Job replied, ‘Do not talk like a fool! We take the good things that God gives us. So we should not be surprised if he sends us trouble as well.’ In all his trouble, Job never said any wrong things against God.
- Job 11:3Your proud words will not cause other people to say nothing. We must make you ashamed when you laugh at us.
- Job 15:5It is your sin that causes you to speak like that. You try to say clever things that will deceive people.
- Psalms 1:1If someone does not do what wicked people tell him to do, if he does not join with sinners, if he does not meet with those who laugh at God, God has blessed that person!
- Psalms 26:4I do not become a friend of people who tell lies. I do not join together with hypocrites.
- Psalms 50:18If you see a robber, you run to help him! You become friends with adulterers.
- Psalms 73:12Take a good look, and see how wicked those people are! They have no troubles, and they become richer and richer.
- Proverbs 1:15My child, do not go along with people like that. Stay away from them.
- Proverbs 2:12You will not join with wicked people. You will keep away from those who speak false things.
- Proverbs 4:14Do not join with wicked or evil people. Do not do the things that they do.
- Proverbs 13:20If you have wise people as your friends, you will become wise yourself. But if you have foolish friends, you will hurt yourself.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not let anyone deceive you. Remember this: ‘If you become a friend of bad people, you also will live in a bad way.’
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
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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