Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;

New American Standard Bible

“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,

King James Version

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Holman Bible

What man is like Job?
He drinks derision like water.

International Standard Version

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

A Conservative Version

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

American Standard Version

What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

Amplified


“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,

Bible in Basic English

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

Darby Translation

What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,

Julia Smith Translation

What man as Job he will drink scoffing as water?

King James 2000

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?

Lexham Expanded Bible

What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

Modern King James verseion

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

NET Bible

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

New Heart English Bible

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Webster

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

World English Bible

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Youngs Literal Translation

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

is like Job
איּוב 
'Iyowb 
Job
Usage: 17

שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 7

Verse Info

Context Readings

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

6 Concerning mine own right, shall I tell a falsehood? Incurable is my disease - not for any transgression. 7 What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water; 8 And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.

Cross References

Job 15:16

How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and, scoffers, in scoffing, delight them? and, dullards, hate knowledge?

Deuteronomy 29:19

and so it come to pass while he is hearing the words of this oath, that he will bless himself in his heart - saying, Prosperity, shall I have, although in the stubbornness of my heart, I go on, - so that the drunkenness addeth to the thirst:

Proverbs 4:17

For they consume bread gotten by lawlessness, and, wine obtained by violence, they drink.

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