Job 34:7 “What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?”

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

World English Bible

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

American Standard Version

What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

Geneva Bible 1599

What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?

Darby Translation

What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,

Young's Literal Translation

Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

Bible in Basic English

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

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Cross references

“What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?”

Job 15:16 Deuteronomy 29:19 Proverbs 1:22 Proverbs 4:17

Job 15:16 · BSB

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Deuteronomy 29:19 · BSB

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land…

Proverbs 1:22 · BSB

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 4:17 · BSB

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

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