New International Version
Job 34:8
8He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked.
Job 34:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.
Context of Job 34:8
6Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’ 7Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water? He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked. 9For he says, ‘There is no profit in trying to please God.’ 10“So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to 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 2:10He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 11:3Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
- Job 15:5Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
- Psalms 1:1Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
- Psalms 26:4I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites.
- Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
- Psalms 73:12This is what the wicked are like— always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.
- Proverbs 1:15my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
- Proverbs 2:12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
- Proverbs 4:14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
- Proverbs 13:20Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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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