Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar. My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.

8saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.

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Cross References

Job 11:3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 36:17But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,

Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Matthew Henry on Job 34:2-10

The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in… Read the whole commentary →

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