8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
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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.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
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 a…
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