Job 34:7

Modern

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Traditional

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

Literal

Who is a man like Job, drinking up derision like the water,

Latin

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

Hebrew

English

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Job 15:16
…how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
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?
Deuteronomy 29:19
…because 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.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Job: A righteous man who endured great suffering