Job 34:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 15:16 : 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
Deut 29:19 : 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 stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Job 15:16
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16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Job 34:8
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8Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
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23Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.
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4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 34:35-37
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35Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.
36Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
37For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.
Job 34:5-6
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5For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
6Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
Job 38:2
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2Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
Job 13:9
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9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 1:8
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8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.
Prov 21:24
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24The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.
Job 17:2
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2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Job 42:7
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7And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Job 11:3
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3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 19:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Job 6:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Job 40:2-3
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2Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
3Then Job answered the Jehovah, and said,
Prov 9:7
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7He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man [getteth] himself a blot.
Job 23:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Ps 73:10
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10Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.
Job 15:13
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13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
Ps 22:7
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7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
2 Kgs 19:24
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24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
Job 3:24
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24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Job 7:17
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17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
Job 9:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:20
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20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Job 21:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Job 39:7
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7He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.
Job 14:3
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3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
Prov 14:6
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6A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Lam 3:15
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15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Job 12:1
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1Then Job answered and said,
Job 2:3
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3And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
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26[ As] a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [So is] a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Prov 31:7
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7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.
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1Then Job answered and said,
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1And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Ps 75:8
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8For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.
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7He will drink of the brook in the way: Therefore will he lift up the head.
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1Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,
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1Then Job answered and said,
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7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.
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2And Job answered and said:
Job 24:18
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18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
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4The words of a man's mouth are [as] deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.
Job 38:37
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37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,