Job 34:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

Job 34:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Psalms 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psalms 26:4
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Elihu humbly addresses himself to the auditors, and endeavours, like an orator, to gain their good-will and their favourable attention. 1. He calls them wise men, and men that had knowledge, Job 34:2. It is comfortable dealing with such as understand sense. I speak as to wise men, who can judge what I say, 1 Cor. 10:15. Elihu differed in opinion from them, and yet he calls them wise and k…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Job virtually goes in company (makes common cause) with the wicked, by taking up their sentiments (Job 9:22, 23, 30; 21:7-15), or at least by saying, that those who act on such sentiments are unpunished (Mal 3:14). To deny God’s righteous government because we do not see the reasons of His acts, is virtually to take part with the ungodly.