Job 34:7 Parallel Translations
NASB: "What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water, (NASB ©1995)
GWT: What person is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
ASV: What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
BBE: What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
DBY: What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
ERV: What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
JPS: What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
WBS: What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
WEB: What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
YLT: Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Job 34:7 Cross References
XREF:Job 15:16 How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water! (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 34:7 What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up {f} scorning like water?
(f) Which is compelled to receive your reproach and scorns of many for his foolish words.
WES: 34:7 Like water - Abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort against God himself.
MHC: 34:1-9 Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scriptures, can say how far matters, words, or actions, agree with true religion, better than any that lean to their own understandings. Job had spoken as if he meant wholly to justify himself. He that say, I have cleansed my hands in vain, does not only offend against God's children, Ps 73:13-15, but gratifies his enemies, and says as they say.
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