New English Translation
Job 34:8
8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along 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
6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’ 7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water! He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men. 9For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’ 10“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.
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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 replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
- Job 11:3Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
- Job 15:5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
- Psalms 1:1How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!
- Psalms 26:4I do not associate with deceitful men, or consort with those who are dishonest.
- Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.
- Psalms 73:12Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.
- Proverbs 1:15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
- Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
- Proverbs 4:14Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.
- Proverbs 13:20The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers 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
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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