Job 34:8
who accompanies those who work iniquity, and who walks with impious men?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
In Context
7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
9For he has said, “Man will not please God, even if he should travel with him.”
Cross References
Job 11:3Will men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute you?
Job 22:15Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
Psalms 26:4One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, so that I may behold the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.
Psalms 73:12But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
Proverbs 2:12so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,
Proverbs 13:20Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.
Matthew Henry on Job 34:2-10
The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in… Read the whole commentary →