Job 34:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?”
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BSBPD
“What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Who <FI>is<Fi> a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 34:7 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
- Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- Job 36:17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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