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Whatמִיmanגֶבֶרis like Job,כְּאִיּוֹבwho drinksיִשְׁתֶּהscornלַּעַגlike water,כַּמָּיִם
Job 34:7
Study it in the app“What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 34:7, word by word
- manגֶבֶרgever
man
Man, a grown man in his strength.
Where else “gever” appears- is like Jobאִיּוֹבiyov
Job
Job: the man of the land of Uz, blameless and upright, whose story of suffering and of questions to God is told in the book that bears his name. Ezekiel 14:14 and James 5:11 also mention him.
Where else “iyov” appears- who drinksיִשְׁתֶּהyishte
drink
Drink.
Where else “yishte” appears- scornלַּעַגlaag
scorn, derision
Mockery, scorn.
Where else “laag” appears- like waterמָּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears
The context
6Concerning my right, should I lie? Incurable is my arrow, without transgression.’
7 · This verse (above)
8and goes in company with those who work wickedness, and walks with men of wickedness?