Job 34:7
5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- KJV
- What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
- WEB
- What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
- ASV
- What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
- DARBY
- What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
- BLB
- Who [is] a man like Job, drinking up derision like the water,
- ÅB
- Hvem er en mann som Job, han som drikker bespottelse som vann[^1]
- OTB
- Hvilken mann er som Job,
som drikker hån som vann, - B1930
- Hvem er en mann som Job, han som drikker bespottelse som vann / < JBS 15, 16.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:16
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:19
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 as well as the dry.
Read in contextProverbs 1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextProverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Read in context