Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 34:8
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
8. In expressing such opinions Job goes over to the camp of the professed ungodly; comp. Job 22:15; Psa 1:1.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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 arach, to join fellowship, 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Although I dare not say, as his three friends do, that he is a wicked man, yet in this matter he speaks and acts like one of them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8. Job virtually goes in company(makes common cause) with the wicked, by taking up their sentiments(Job 9:22; Job 9:23;Job 9:30; Job 21:7-15),or at least by saying, that those who act on such sentiments areunpunished (Mal 3:14). To denyGod’s righteous government because we do not see the reasons of Hisacts, is virtually to take part with the ungodly.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) And walketh with wicked men.This was the charge that was brought against Job by Eliphaz (Job. 15:4-5; Job. 22:15).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8. In company Literally, To the company. That Job should have uttered such words (Job 34:5-6) stirs the indignation of Elihu. His zeal for God and the truth leads him, like the friends, into embittered language and unjustifiable assault. His view is in general just, that the language a man speaks betokens the company he keeps. He intimates that the complaints Job makes are merely the sentiments of the utterly godless, though in another guise. Like sentiments lead to like company, and, vice versa, as we see in the following verse, low associations give rise to low ideas. Dr. Clarke thinks there is an allusion here to a caravan, in which all kinds of persons were found.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Ver. 8. Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity ] Strange if he should; for the wicked is abomination to the righteous, Pro 29:27 . “Lord, gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men,” saith David, Psa 26:9 . Lord, send me not to hell among the wicked (said a certain good woman upon her death bed), for thou knowest I never liked their company here on earth. But how proveth Elihu this charge against Job, who was ever a terror to graceless Belialists? Forsooth he gathereth it from a certain speech of his, if he could tell what, or when it was uttered.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
iniquity. Hebrew. ‘aven. App-44.
wicked. Hebrew. rasha’. App-44.
men. Hebrew, plural of ‘enosh. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Job 2:10, Job 11:3, Job 15:5, Psa 1:1, Psa 26:4, Psa 50:18, Psa 73:12-15, Pro 1:15, Pro 2:12, Pro 4:14, Pro 13:20, 1Co 15:33
Reciprocal: Job 34:36 – his answers Job 35:4 – thy Job 36:17 – fulfilled Mal 3:13 – Your Mat 20:13 – I do Rom 8:33 – Who
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
34:8 Which goeth in {g} company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
(g) Meaning that Job was like the wicked, because he seemed not to glorify God and submit himself to his judgments.