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Job 34:7
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"Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What [noble] man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
There is no other man like Job; he takes insults as if he were drinking water.
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
But to tell the truth, Job is shameless!
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
"Is there a man like Iyov, who drinks in scoffing like water,
What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
"Would anyone but Job say such things? He has more thirst for insulting God than for water.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up words against him like water?
Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Have you ever seen anyone like this man Job? He never shows respect for God.
What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water?
What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?
What man is like Job?He drinks derision like water.
What man is like Iyov, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water?
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
What man is like Job,Who drinks up mocking like water,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 15:16, Deuteronomy 29:19, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 4:17
Reciprocal: Job 11:3 - mockest Job 36:21 - this Proverbs 14:9 - Fools Proverbs 19:28 - the Malachi 3:13 - Your
Cross-References
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What man [is] like Job,.... This is said as wondering at the part he acted, that a man so wise and good as Job was esteemed to be should behave in such a manner as he did;
[who] drinketh up scorning like water? For a foolish and wicked man to do so is not strange nor uncommon; but for a man of such sense and grace as Job was to do this was astonishing; to have no more regard to his character than to expose himself to the scorn and ridicule of men: for a man to become a laughing stock to profane and wicked men for his religion and piety, it is no disgrace, but an honour to him; but by unbecoming words and gestures to make himself justly jeered and scoffed at is great indiscretion. Or it may be understood actively of his dealing very freely and frequently in scoffs and jeers, which he poured out very liberally and plentifully, and seemingly with as much delight as a man drinks water when thirsty; see Job 11:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence and rebellion. He indulged in it as freely as a man drinks water; gathers up and imbibes all the language of reproach that he can find, and indulges in it as if it were perfectly harmless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 34:7. Drinketh up scorning like water? — This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by Eliphaz, Job 15:16. It is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor, from a camel drinking, who takes in a large draught of water, even the most turbid, on its setting out on a journey in a caravan, that it may serve it for a long time. Job deals largely in scorning; he fills his heart with it.
