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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,
"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,
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 for Abraham. "What have you done to us?" he demanded. "What crime have I committed that deserves treatment like this, making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? No one should ever do what you have done!
Soon Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter, Dinah. But since his sons were out in the fields herding his livestock, he said nothing until they returned.
Hamor, Shechem's father, came to discuss the matter with Jacob.
No matter what dowry or gift you demand, I will gladly pay it—just give me the girl as my wife."
But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dinah, Jacob's sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father, Hamor.
But they will consider staying here and becoming one people with us only if all of our men are circumcised, just as they are.
But three days later, when their wounds were still sore, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, who were Dinah's full brothers, took their swords and entered the town without opposition. Then they slaughtered every male there,
sons and grandsons, daughters and granddaughters—all his descendants.
"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. This is how you are to deal with those who sin unintentionally by doing anything that violates one of the Lord 's commands.
"If the entire Israelite community sins by violating one of the Lord 's commands, but the people don't realize it, they are still 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.
