Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing 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?
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:7
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.
Names
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.