Job 34:8
He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Majority Standard Bible
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, who drinks up derision like water?
9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Cross References
Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
Job 22:15Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
Psalms 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of 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 →