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Job 34:7
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Christian Standard Bible®
What man is like Job?He drinks derision like water.
What man is like Job?He drinks derision like water.
Hebrew Names Version
What man is like Iyov, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Iyov, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
King James Version
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
English Standard Version
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
New Century Version
There is no other man like Job; he takes insults as if he were drinking water.
There is no other man like Job; he takes insults as if he were drinking water.
New English Translation
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
Amplified Bible
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
New American Standard Bible
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
World English Bible
What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
Geneva Bible (1587)
What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
Legacy Standard Bible
What man is like Job,Who drinks up mocking like water,
What man is like Job,Who drinks up mocking like water,
Berean Standard Bible
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Contemporary English Version
But to tell the truth, Job is shameless!
But to tell the truth, Job is shameless!
Complete Jewish Bible
"Is there a man like Iyov, who drinks in scoffing like water,
"Is there a man like Iyov, who drinks in scoffing like water,
Darby Translation
What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Would anyone but Job say such things? He has more thirst for insulting God than for water.
"Would anyone but Job say such things? He has more thirst for insulting God than for water.
George Lamsa Translation
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Good News Translation
Have you ever seen anyone like this man Job? He never shows respect for God.
Have you ever seen anyone like this man Job? He never shows respect for God.
Lexham English Bible
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Literal Translation
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water?
where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water?
American Standard Version
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
Bible in Basic English
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
King James Version (1611)
What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning like water?
What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning like water?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water?
Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?
What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?
English Revised Version
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
Update Bible Version
What [noble] man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
What [noble] man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
Webster's Bible Translation
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
New King James Version
What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
New Living Translation
"Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
"Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
New Life Bible
What man is like Job, who drinks up words against him like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up words against him like water?
New Revised Standard
Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
Douay-Rheims Bible
What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Revised Standard Version
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Young's Literal Translation
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
Contextual Overview
5"We've all heard Job say, ‘I'm in the right, but God won't give me a fair trial. When I defend myself, I'm called a liar to my face. I've done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.' Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job? Do you think he's spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd, So that now he's parroting their line: ‘It doesn't pay to try to please God'?
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
Genesis 34:5
Jacob heard that Shechem had raped his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with the livestock so he didn't say anything until they got home. Hamor, Shechem's father, went to Jacob to work out marriage arrangements. Meanwhile Jacob's sons on their way back from the fields heard what had happened. They were outraged, explosive with anger. Shechem's rape of Jacob's daughter was intolerable in Israel and not to be put up with.
Jacob heard that Shechem had raped his daughter Dinah, but his sons were out in the fields with the livestock so he didn't say anything until they got home. Hamor, Shechem's father, went to Jacob to work out marriage arrangements. Meanwhile Jacob's sons on their way back from the fields heard what had happened. They were outraged, explosive with anger. Shechem's rape of Jacob's daughter was intolerable in Israel and not to be put up with.
Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped. They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced. The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us. Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family. But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped. They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced. The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us. Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family. But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."
Genesis 34:25
Three days after the circumcision, while all the men were still very sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword in hand, walked into the city as if they owned the place and murdered every man there. They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem, rescued Dinah from Shechem's house, and left. When the rest of Jacob's sons came on the scene of slaughter, they looted the entire city in retaliation for Dinah's rape. Flocks, herds, donkeys, belongings—everything, whether in the city or the fields—they took. And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.
Three days after the circumcision, while all the men were still very sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each with his sword in hand, walked into the city as if they owned the place and murdered every man there. They also killed Hamor and his son Shechem, rescued Dinah from Shechem's house, and left. When the rest of Jacob's sons came on the scene of slaughter, they looted the entire city in retaliation for Dinah's rape. Flocks, herds, donkeys, belongings—everything, whether in the city or the fields—they took. And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.
Leviticus 4:13
"If the whole congregation sins unintentionally by straying from one of the commandments of God that must not be broken, they become guilty even though no one is aware of it. When they do become aware of the sin they've committed, the congregation must bring a bull as an Absolution-Offering and present it at the Tent of Meeting. The elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the bull's head in the presence of God and one of them will slaughter it before God . The anointed priest will then bring some of the blood into the Tent of Meeting, dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of it seven times before God in front of the curtain. He will smear some of the blood on the horns of the Altar which is before God in the Tent of Meeting and pour the rest of it at the base of the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He will remove all the fat and burn it on the Altar. He will follow the same procedure with this bull as with the bull for the Absolution-Offering. The priest makes atonement for them and they are forgiven. They then will take the bull outside the camp and burn it just as they burned the first bull. It's the Absolution-Offering for the congregation.
"If the whole congregation sins unintentionally by straying from one of the commandments of God that must not be broken, they become guilty even though no one is aware of it. When they do become aware of the sin they've committed, the congregation must bring a bull as an Absolution-Offering and present it at the Tent of Meeting. The elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the bull's head in the presence of God and one of them will slaughter it before God . The anointed priest will then bring some of the blood into the Tent of Meeting, dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of it seven times before God in front of the curtain. He will smear some of the blood on the horns of the Altar which is before God in the Tent of Meeting and pour the rest of it at the base of the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He will remove all the fat and burn it on the Altar. He will follow the same procedure with this bull as with the bull for the Absolution-Offering. The priest makes atonement for them and they are forgiven. They then will take the bull outside the camp and burn it just as they burned the first bull. It's the Absolution-Offering for the congregation.
Leviticus 4:27
"When an ordinary member of the congregation sins unintentionally, straying from one of the commandments of God which must not be broken, he is guilty. When he is made aware of his sin, he shall bring a goat, a female without any defect, and offer it for his sin, lay his hand on the head of the Absolution-Offering, and slaughter it at the place of the Whole-Burnt-Offering. The priest will take some of its blood with his finger, smear it on the horns of the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering, and pour the rest at the base of the Altar. Finally, he'll take out all the fat, the same as with the Peace-Offerings, and burn it on the Altar for a pleasing fragrance to God . "In this way, the priest makes atonement for him and he's forgiven.
"When an ordinary member of the congregation sins unintentionally, straying from one of the commandments of God which must not be broken, he is guilty. When he is made aware of his sin, he shall bring a goat, a female without any defect, and offer it for his sin, lay his hand on the head of the Absolution-Offering, and slaughter it at the place of the Whole-Burnt-Offering. The priest will take some of its blood with his finger, smear it on the horns of the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering, and pour the rest at the base of the Altar. Finally, he'll take out all the fat, the same as with the Peace-Offerings, and burn it on the Altar for a pleasing fragrance to God . "In this way, the priest makes atonement for him and he's forgiven.
Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to pay for any vow—they are both an abomination to God , your God.
No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to pay for any vow—they are both an abomination to God , your God.
2 Samuel 13:21
King David heard the whole story and was enraged, but he didn't discipline Amnon. David doted on him because he was his firstborn. Absalom quit speaking to Amnon—not a word, whether good or bad—because he hated him for violating his sister Tamar.
King David heard the whole story and was enraged, but he didn't discipline Amnon. David doted on him because he was his firstborn. Absalom quit speaking to Amnon—not a word, whether good or bad—because he hated him for violating his sister Tamar.
Psalms 93:5
What you say goes—it always has. "Beauty" and "Holy" mark your palace rule, God , to the very end of time.
What you say goes—it always has. "Beauty" and "Holy" mark your palace rule, God , to the very end of time.
Ephesians 5:3
Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.
Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.
Colossians 3:5
And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
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.
