English Standard Version
Job 34:8
8who travels in 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
- New Living Translation (NLT)He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.
Context of Job 34:8
6in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' 7What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men? 9For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.' 10"Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
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וְאָרַ֣ח לְ֭חֶבְרָה עִם־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וְ֝לָלֶ֗כֶת עִם־אַנְשֵׁי־רֶֽשַׁע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:8
- Job 2:10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
- Job 11:3Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
- Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
- Psalms 26:4I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
- Psalms 50:18If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
- Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
- Proverbs 1:15my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
- Proverbs 2:12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
- Proverbs 4:14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.
- Proverbs 13:20Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins 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
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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