Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
What man [is] like Job, who drinks 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?
King James 2000
What man is like Job, who drinks up 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 justice? [Though I am] without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.' 7 What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water? 8 And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.
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Cross References
Job 15:16
{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
Proverbs 1:22
"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Deuteronomy 29:19
And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.
Proverbs 4:17
For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.