Job 34:7

This verse is often misinterpreted as praising Job's resilience in drinking up scorn from others like water, inverting Elihu's rebuke into an endorsement of endurance; others wrongly apply it literally to justify scorning sufferers or as God's direct words affirming Job's innocence, ignoring Elihu's role as a flawed human critic in the dialogue and the ultimate vindication of Job later in the book.

Elihu rhetorically questions what man resembles Job in his habit of consuming scorn as effortlessly as water, highlighting Job's persistent and unhesitating mockery of God's justice and providence amid his suffering, portraying it as a deeply ingrained character flaw that reveals a lack of reverence for divine wisdom.