King James Version

Job 34:7

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

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מִיmiwhoמִיparticle, interrogative — “who”H4310who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffixany (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.גֶ֥בֶרgevermanגֶּבֶרnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “man”, the ordinary formH1397properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simplyevery one, man, [idiom] mighty.כְּאִיּ֑וֹבkeiovas Jobאִיּוֹבpreposition, noun, proper name — “as Job”H347Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patienceJob.יִֽשְׁתֶּהyishtehbanquetשָׁתָהverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “banquet”, an unfinished actionH8354to imbibe (literally or figuratively)[idiom] assuredly, banquet, [idiom] certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk ([idiom] -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)לַּ֥עַגlaagderisionלַעַגnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “derision”, the ordinary formH3933derision, scoffingderision, scorn (-ing).כַּמָּֽיִםkamayimas waterמַיִםpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “as water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

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

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Τίς ἀνὴρ ὥσπερ Ἰὼβ, πίνων μυκτηρισμὸν ὥσπερ ὕδωρ;

American Standard Version (1901)

Young’s Literal Translation

World English Bible

Darby Translation

Douay-Rheims

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

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