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Job 34:7
Job 34:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 34, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
King James Version
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
World English Bible
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
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Job 34:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
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.
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.