Job 34:8

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

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 When I defend myself, I'm called a liar to my face. I've done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.'
7 Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job?
8 Do you think he's spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd,
9 So that now he's parroting their line: 'It doesn't pay to try to please God'?
10 "You're veterans in dealing with these matters; certainly we're of one mind on this. It's impossible for God to do anything evil; no way can the Mighty One do wrong.
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