Job 34:8
And is on the road to keep company with the wrong-doers, and to walk with men of wickedness?
Leeser Tanakh
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 like Job, who drinketh scorning like water,
9For he hath said, “It profiteth a man nothing when he acteth according to the pleasure of God.”
Cross References
Job 11:3Thy inventions are to bring men to silence; and when thou utterest thy mocking no one is to cause thee to feel abashed!
Job 22:15Wilt thou [thus] observe the path of ancient times which the men of injustice have trodden?
Psalms 26:4I have not sat with men of falsehood, and with dissemblers will I not enter [in communion].
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked; and yet prospering continually they increase in wealth.
Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the bad, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise men will become wise; but he that associateth with fools will be destroyed.
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 →