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Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

KJV

Quis est vir ut est Job, qui bibit subsannationem quasi aquam :

Vulgate

τίς ἀνὴρ ὥσπερ Ἰώβ, πίνων μυκτηρισμὸν ὥσπερ ὕδωρ;

LXX

What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

ASV

מִי גֶ֥בֶר כְּ/אִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה לַּ֥עַג כַּ/מָּֽיִם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִיּ֗וֹב
'yvb
proper_noun · 58×
גֶ֣בֶר
gbr
noun · 65×
לַּ֥עַג
l'g
noun · 7×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
שְׁתּ֖וֹת
shtvt
verb · 216×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 29:19 — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thir
  • Job 15:16 — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Job 15:16 — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Prov 1:22 — How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 19:28 — An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.