Job 15:16
How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
17I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
Job 34:7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
Psalms 14:1A Psalm of David. O Lord, who will dwell in your tabernacle? Or who will rest on your holy mountain?
Proverbs 19:28An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.
Romans 3:9What is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under 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 →