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New Century Version

Job 34:7

There is no other man like Job; he takes insults as if he were drinking water.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Scoffing;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Scorn;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What man is like Job?He drinks derision like water.
Hebrew Names Version
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?
English Standard Version
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
New English Translation
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
Amplified Bible
"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,
World English Bible
What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
Geneva Bible (1587)
What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
Legacy Standard Bible
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?
Contemporary English Version
But to tell the truth, Job is shameless!
Complete Jewish Bible
"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,
Easy-to-Read Version
"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?
Good News Translation
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?
Literal Translation
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?
American Standard Version
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,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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?
English Revised Version
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?
Update Bible Version
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?
New King James Version
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?
New Life Bible
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,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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?
Revised Standard Version
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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,

Contextual Overview

1 Then Elihu said: 2 "Hear my words, you wise men; listen to me, you who know a lot. 3 The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food. 4 Let's decide for ourselves what is right, and let's learn together what is good. 5 "Job says, ‘I am not guilty, and God has refused me a fair trial. 6 Instead of getting a fair trial, I am called a liar. I have been seriously hurt, even though I have not sinned.' 7 There is no other man like Job; he takes insults as if he were drinking water. 8 He keeps company with those who do evil and spends time with wicked men, 9 because he says, ‘It is no use 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 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham to him and said, "What have you done to us? What wrong did I do against you? Why did you bring this trouble to my kingdom? You should not have done these things to me.
Genesis 34:5
Jacob learned how Shechem had disgraced his daughter, but since his sons were out in the field with the cattle, Jacob said nothing until they came home.
Genesis 34:6
While he waited, Hamor father of Shechem went to talk with Jacob.
Genesis 34:12
Ask as much as you want for the payment for the bride, and I will give it to you. Just let me marry Dinah."
Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with lies, because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah.
Genesis 34:22
But we must agree to one thing: All our men must be circumcised as they are. Then they will agree to live in our land, and we will be one people.
Genesis 34:25
Three days later the men who were circumcised were still in pain. Two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi (Dinah's brothers), took their swords and made a surprise attack on the city, killing all the men there.
Genesis 46:7
his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters. He took all his family to Egypt with him.
Leviticus 4:2
"Tell the people of Israel this: ‘When a person sins by accident and does some things the Lord has commanded not to be done, that person must do these things:
Leviticus 4:13
"‘If the whole nation of Israel sins accidentally without knowing it and does something the Lord has commanded not to be done, they 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.


 
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