Bible verse
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Job 34:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 34.
3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
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.’
10 Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
11 For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
KJV
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
ASV
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
ERV
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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