Job 15:16
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
17Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Job 34:7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Psalms 14:1To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Proverbs 19:28A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
Romans 3:9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →