Parallel Verses
Amplified
“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision 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,
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,
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
Although I am right, I am accounted a liar.
My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,
Who goes in company with those who do evil
And walks with wicked men?
Names
Cross References
Job 15:16
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O naive ones [you who are easily misled], will you love being simple-minded and undiscerning?
How long will scoffers [who ridicule and deride] delight in scoffing,
How long will fools [who obstinately mock truth] hate knowledge?
Deuteronomy 29:19
It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness
And drink the wine of violence.