Job 34:8

8 He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked.

Job 34:8 in Other Translations

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

8 who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?

8 He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.

8 Do you think he's spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd,

8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Job 34:8 Meaning and Commentary

Job 34:8

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.

Job 34:8 In-Context

6 Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’

7 Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

8 He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked.

9 For he says, ‘There is no profit in trying to please God.’

10 “So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 22:15; Psalms 50:18