Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Job 34:7 in other translations
| BSB | What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water? |
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| WEB | What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, |
| ASV | What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water, |
| YLT | Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, |
| DARBY | What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water, |
| BBE | What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God, |
| Webster | What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? |
What does Job 34:7 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 34:1-9
Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scriptures, can say how far matters, words, or actions, agree with true religion, better than any that lean to their own understandings. Job had spoken as if he meant wholly to justify himself. He that say, I have cleansed my…
Job 34:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 34:7
- Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Deuteronomy 29:19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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Context
- Job 34:6
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
- Job 34:8
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 34:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Qué hombre hay como Job, que bebe el escarnio como agua? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui est l’homme qui soit comme Job? Il boit la moquerie comme l’eau; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer ist ein Mann wie Hiob, der Hohn trinkt wie Wasser, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis est vir ut est Job, qui bibit subsannationem quasi aquam: |