Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 34:6-9

"Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression. What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water, Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men? For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God." — Job 34:6-9 (ASV)

He did not mean that Job actually went into the company of the wicked; but that, in saying that it had been no profit to him to delight himself with God—which Elihu declares Job said, though I do not remember that Job ever actually said so—, he was making himself an associate of ungodly men. Any of us would be doing the same if we, in our sorrowful moments, were to say that we had derived no profit from delighting ourselves with God. That would not be true; it would be a rebellious and wicked speech, and, to some degree, it would be an atheistic speech.