Job 34:7

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

5Job has said, “I am not guilty. But God refuses to judge me in a fair way. 6I am right, but nobody believes me. I have not done anything wrong, but I am suffering and I am near to death.” There has never been a man like Job! He laughs at God as easily as he drinks water. 8He is a friend of wicked people, and people who do evil things. 9Job says, “If anyone tries to please God, it does not help them at all.”

Job 34:7 word by word

מִי־גֶ֥בֶר כְּאִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה־לַּ֥עַג כַּמָּֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• What manגָּבֶרgeber · great manH1397
• like Jobאִיּוֹב'îyôb · JobH347
• drinketh upשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• scorningלַ֫עַגla‛ag · derisionH3933
• like waterמַיmayim · waterH4325

Cross-references for Job 34:7

• Job 15:16So he certainly will not trust people. People are wicked and cannot think true thoughts. They like to do evil things, as if they are drinking water!
• Deuteronomy 29:19Nobody who hears the message of this covenant should think that they can go against it. Someone might say to himself, ‘I do not have to obey this covenant. I will be safe, whatever happens. God will still bless me.’ A person who thinks like that will bring trouble on everyone and on everything.
• Proverbs 1:22‘Listen to me! Will you silly people continue to be so silly? You people who laugh at God, will you always be like that? Will fools always refuse to learn anything?
• Proverbs 4:17Evil acts are their food. Violence is their drink.

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

Topics related to Job 34:7

• Infidelity
• Scoffing

In the dictionaries

• Job
• Chastisement
• Choose
• Dust
• Elihu
• Fit
• Scorn

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