Job 34:8
And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
In Context
7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
Cross References
Job 11:3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
Job 22:15Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?
Psalms 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.
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 →