Job 34:7 · KJV
“What man {is} like Job, {who} drinketh up scorning like water?”
— Job 34:7
Should I lie against my right? my wound {is} incurable without transgression. {my wound: Heb. mine arrow}
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 34 — Context
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
6Should I lie against my right? my wound {is} incurable without transgression. {my wound: Heb. mine arrow}
7What man {is} like Job, {who} drinketh up scorning like water?
8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Cross References
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Deuteronomy 29:19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: {imagination: or, stubbornness} {drunkenness...: Heb. the drunken to the thirsty}
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.