Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Parallel translations
- WEB Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
- BSB He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
- NKJV Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
- NASB Who goes in company with the workers of injustice, And walks with wicked people?
- NLT He chooses evil people as companions. He spends his time with wicked men.
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Quick answer
Moses immediately bows to the earth and worships. The revelation of God's character calls forth humble adoration.
Overview
Moses' instant response to God's self-proclamation is worship. True knowledge of who God is always leads to reverence and praise. His posture models the only fitting reaction to the glory of God's mercy and justice.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 1:1Blessed 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.
- Prov 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- 1 Cor 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- Ps 50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
- Ps 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Prov 1:15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
- Ps 73:12–15Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
- Prov 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
- Job 2:10But 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 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Prov 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
- Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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