Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh 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,

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,

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 Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow -- without transgression.' 7 Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, 8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.


Cross References

Job 15:16

Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

Proverbs 1:22

'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

Deuteronomy 29:19

'And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

Proverbs 4:17

For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

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