Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 34:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 34:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 34:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse means that someone who spends time with bad people and does bad things can be seen as a bad person too. It warns us to be careful about who we choose to be friends with.

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

Contradiction with Psalm 1:1

This verse describes the blessedness of those who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked, in contrast to Job 34:8, which speaks of associating with the wicked.

Psalm 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. [ungodly: or, wicked]

Contradiction with Proverbs 4:14-15

These verses instruct to avoid the path of the wicked, whereas Job 34:8 mentions traveling with the wicked.

Proverbs 4:14-15: Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 6:14

Advises against being yoked with unbelievers, contradicting Job 34:8's implication of association with the ungodly.

2 Corinthians 6:14: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Contradiction with James 4:4

States that friendship with the world is enmity with God, opposing the idea in Job 34:8 of being in company with wrongdoers.

James 4:4: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Contradiction with Ephesians 5:11

Instructs to have no fellowship with works of darkness, conflicting with the accompanying in Job 34:8.

Ephesians 5:11: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].
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