Job 34 · Verse 8

Job 34:8

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 34:8, King James Version

Job 34:8 in other translations

BSBHe keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
WEBwho goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
ASVWho goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
YLTAnd he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
DARBYAnd goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
BBEAnd goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?
WebsterWho goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

What does Job 34:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 34:1-9

Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scriptures, can say how far matters, words, or actions, agree with true religion, better than any that lean to their own understandings. Job had spoken as if he meant wholly to justify himself. He that say, I have cleansed my…

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Job 34:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאָרַ֣חve.'a.Rachand he travelsH732
לְ֭חֶבְרָהLe.chev.rahfor companyH2274
עִם\־'im-withH5973
פֹּ֣עֲלֵיPo.'a.leidoers ofH6466
אָ֑וֶן'A.venevilH205
וְ֝לָלֶ֗כֶתve.la.Le.khetand to walkH1980
עִם\־'im-withH5973
אַנְשֵׁי\־'an.shei-people ofH582
רֶֽשַׁע\׃Re.sha'wickednessH7562

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 34:8

  • 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 26:4

    I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

  • Psalms 50:18

    When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

  • Proverbs 2:12

    To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • Psalms 73:12-15

    Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

  • Proverbs 1:15

    My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Job 2:10

    But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

  • Job 15:5

    For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Job 11:3

    Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • Job 22:15

    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:10; 11:3; 15:5; Ps 1:1; 26:4; 50:18; 73:12-15; Pr 1:15; 2:12; 4:14
Pr 13:20; 1Co 15:33

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Context

  • Job 34:7

    What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

  • Job 34:8

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

  • Job 34:9

    For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

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Job 34:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y va en compañía con los que obran iniquidad, y anda con los hombres maliciosos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il marche dans la compagnie des ouvriers d’iniquité, et il chemine avec les hommes méchants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und in Gesellschaft geht mit denen, die Frevel tun, und wandelt mit gottlosen Menschen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		qui graditur cum operantibus iniquitatem, et ambulat cum viris impiis?