Parallel Verses
King James 2000
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
New American Standard Bible
Who
King James Version
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Holman Bible
He drinks derision
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?
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,
The Emphasized Bible
What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing 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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Asserts God's Justice
6 Should I lie concerning my right? my wound is incurable though I am without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water? 8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Deuteronomy 29:19
And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.