Christian Standard Bible
Job 34:7
7What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water.
Job 34:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
- New International Version (NIV)Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
- English Standard Version (ESV)What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
- New King James Version (NKJV)What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
Context of Job 34:7
5For Job has declared, “I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. 6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.” What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water. 8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men. 9For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”
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מִי־גֶ֥בֶר כְּאִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה־לַּ֥עַג כַּמָּֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:7
- Job 15:16how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- Deuteronomy 29:19When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 4:17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Commentaries on Job 34:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Drinketh up scorning like water? - This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by Eliphaz, Job 15:16. It is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor, from a camel drinking, who takes in a large draught of water, even the most turbid, on its setting out on a journey in a caravan, that it may serve it for a long time. Job deals largely in scorning; he fills his heart with it.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence and rebellion. He indulged in it as freely as a man drinks water; gathers up and imbibes all the language of reproach that he can find, and indulges in it as if it were perfectly harmless.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. (Job 15:16). Image from the camel. scorning--against God (Job 15:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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