Job 34:7
5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with 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 more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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:
Read in contextProverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, 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