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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Job 34:8

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Company;   Go;   Job, Book of;   Worker;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He keeps company with evildoersand walks with wicked men.
Hebrew Names Version
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
King James Version
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
English Standard Version
who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
New Century Version
He keeps company with those who do evil and spends time with wicked men,
New English Translation
He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.
Amplified Bible
Who goes in company with those who do evil And walks with wicked men?
New American Standard Bible
Who goes in company with the workers of injustice, And walks with wicked people?
World English Bible
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which goeth in the companie of them yt worke iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men?
Legacy Standard Bible
But he travels in company with the workers of iniquity,And walks with wicked men?
Contemporary English Version
He spends his time with sinners,
Complete Jewish Bible
who keeps company with evildoers and goes with wicked men,
Darby Translation
And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Easy-to-Read Version
He is a friend of evil people. He likes to spend time with the wicked.
George Lamsa Translation
Who is a companion and friend of the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Good News Translation
He likes the company of evil people and goes around with sinners.
Lexham English Bible
And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.
Literal Translation
who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which goeth in ye company of wicked doers, & walketh wt vngodly me?
American Standard Version
Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
Bible in Basic English
And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
King James Version (1611)
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which goeth in the companie of wicked doers, and walketh with vngodly men?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly.
English Revised Version
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that goith with men worchynge wickidnesse, and goith with vnfeithful men?
Update Bible Version
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
New King James Version
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
New Living Translation
He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.
New Life Bible
He goes among those who do wrong, and walks with sinful men.
New Revised Standard
who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh with wicked men?
Revised Standard Version
who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
Young's Literal Translation
And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?

Contextual Overview

1Then Elihu continued: 2"Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning. 3For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food. 4Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. 5For Job has declared, 'I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. 6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' 7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water? 8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.9For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 2:10, Job 11:3, Job 15:5, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 26:4, Psalms 50:18, Psalms 73:12-15, Proverbs 1:15, Proverbs 2:12, Proverbs 4:14, Proverbs 13:20, 1 Corinthians 15:33

Reciprocal: Job 34:36 - his answers Job 35:4 - thy Job 36:17 - fulfilled Malachi 3:13 - Your Matthew 20:13 - I do Romans 8:33 - Who

Cross-References

Genesis 34:3
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
1 Kings 11:2
These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods." Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,.... The worst of men, who make it their constant business and employment to commit sin:

and walketh with wicked men; the most abandoned of mankind. Not that Job kept company with such, and walked with them in all excess of not; nor did Elihu think so; Job was "a man that feared God, and eschewed evil", and evil men; he was "a companion of them that feared the Lord"; his delight was "with the excellent of the earth": nor should a good man keep company and walk with the wicked, nor can he with any pleasure. But the sense is, that by his words, the expressions that dropped from his lips, he seemed to agree with them, and to be of the same sentiments with them; and what he delivered tended to encourage and harden them in their sinful ways; and what those words were follow.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity - That is, in his sentiments. The idea is, that he advocated the same opinions which they did, and entertained the same views of God and of his government. The same charge had been before brought against him by his friends; see the notes at Job 21:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 34:8. Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity — This is an allusion to a caravan: all kinds of persons are found there; but yet a holy and respectable man might be found in that part of the company where profligates assembled. But surely this assertion of Elihu was not strictly true; and the words literally translated, will bear a less evil meaning: "Job makes a track ארח arach, to join fellowship, לחברה lechebrah, with the workers of iniquity;" i.e., Job's present mode of reasoning, when he says, "I am righteous, yet God hath taken away my judgment," is according to the assertion of sinners, who say, "There is no profit in serving God; for, if a man be righteous, he is not benefited by it, for God does not vindicate a just man's cause against his oppressors." By adopting so much of their creed, he intimates that Job is taking the steps that lead to fellowship with them. See Job 34:9.


 
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