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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 derision like 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,
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
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "Why have you done this to us? What wrong did I do to you? Why did you lie and say that she was your sister? You brought great trouble to my kingdom. You should not have done this to me.
Jacob learned that Shechem had done this very bad thing to his daughter. But all his sons were out in the fields with the cattle. So he did nothing until they came home.
Then Shechem's father, Hamor, came out to talk with Jacob.
I will give you any gift you want if you will only allow me to marry Dinah. I will give you anything you ask, but let me marry her."
Jacob's sons decided to lie to Shechem and his father because Shechem had done such a bad thing to their sister Dinah.
But there is one thing that all our men must agree to do. They must agree to be circumcised as they are.
Three days later the men who were circumcised were still sore. Two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, knew that the men would be weak at this time. So they went to the city and killed all the men there.
With him were his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters. All of his family went with him.
"Tell the Israelites this: A person might sin without meaning to and do something that the Lord commanded should not be done. For example:
"The whole nation of Israel might sin without knowing it. They might break one of the commands of the Lord and become guilty of doing something he said must not be done.
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.
