Job 34:8
who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
World English Bible Updated
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 scorn like water,
9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
Cross References
Job 11:3Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
Job 22:15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
Psalms 26:4I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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 →