Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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

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 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.

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.

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