Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery 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
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,
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 Have I lied concerning the justice that I deserve? My wound is incurable, though transgression cannot be attributed to me.' 7 "What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water, 8 traffics in those who practice evil, and walks with wicked people?
Names
Cross References
Job 15:16
then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"
Proverbs 1:22
"You naive ones, how long will you love naivety And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?"
Deuteronomy 29:19
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he will bless himself and say: "I will have a peaceful life, even though I'm determined to be stubborn.' By doing this he will be sweeping away both watered and parched ground alike.'
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and they drink the wine of violence.