Job 34:7
What does Job 34:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 34:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
KJV
King James Version · 1611What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Who <FI>is<Fi> a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:16
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
- Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
- Deuteronomy 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 stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
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