Job 34:7
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What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Job 15:16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Deuteronomy 29:19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 4:17 But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.

Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
6For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin. 7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?8Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh with wicked men?…
Cross References
Job 12:4
He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

Job 15:16
How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Proverbs 19:28
An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Lexicon
What
מִי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

man
גֶ֥בֶר (ḡe·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

is like Job,
כְּאִיּ֑וֹב (kə·’î·yō·wḇ)
Preposition-k | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 347: Job -- a patriarch

[who] drinks up
יִֽשְׁתֶּה־ (yiš·teh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8354: To imbibe

derision
לַּ֥עַג (la·‘aḡ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3933: A mocking, derision

like water?
כַּמָּֽיִם׃ (kam·mā·yim)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


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

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

What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

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

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

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

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
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