New English Translation
Job 34:7
7What man is like Job, who 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 says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right. 6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’ What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water! 8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men. 9For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
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מִי־גֶ֥בֶר כְּאִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה־לַּ֥עַג כַּמָּֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 34:7
- Job 15:16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- Deuteronomy 29:19When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 4:17For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from 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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