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Job 34:7

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,.... The worst of men, who make it their constant business and employment to commit sin:

and walketh with wicked men; the most abandoned of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Drinketh up scorning like water? - This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by Eliphaz, Job 15:16. It is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor, from a camel…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 34:1-9

Here, I. Elihu humbly addresses himself to the auditors, and endeavours, like an orator, to gain their good-will and their favourable attention. 1. He calls them wise men, and men that had knowledge,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Elihu cannot restrain his abhorrence of Job's sentiments. By scorningis meant impiety and scepticism. On the figure comp. ch. Job 15:16.

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