117. "He Drinketh Up Scorning Like Water"

"He Drinketh Up Scorning Like Water"

(Job 34:7) This idom is very common among the Arabs. It is natural to their mind to think of many operations under the idea of eating and drinking, which we connect with some other sense than that of taste. They very commonly speak of eating a great rain when they have been drenched in a shower; or they say they ate a strong wind or a very piercing cold. There are many, many other things that they will tell you they drank or ate.

"He drinketh up scorning like water."