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Job 34:7
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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 drinketh up scorning like water?
What 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 up derision like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
What man is 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 mocking like water,
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
But to tell the truth, Job is shameless!
"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 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, who drinks scorn like water?
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;
where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water?
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning 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, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
What [noble] man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
"Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
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 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,
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
"What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision 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
Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"
When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.
Then Shechem's father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.
You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.
Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.
He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters—all his descendants.
"Tell the Israelites, ‘When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them—
"‘If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord's commandments, which must not be violated, so they become 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.
