Job 35:4
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
BSB
ASV
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
KJV
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will therefore answer thy words, and thy friends with thee. In his former saying, he mentioned culpable words, as if those of blessed Job, and derived from them matter for his remarks. But, in the words which follow, he examines, with great acuteness, that, which he craftily invented as matter to speak upon. And the sentiments which follow are powerful, but are not applicable to the character of blessed Job; and the shafts of this reproof strike him the less, the more unjustly they are launched against him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
leads to
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
Through
Job 34:8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
leads to
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”