Job 15:16
How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
17I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Job 34:7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
Psalms 14:1{To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 19:28A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down iniquity.
Romans 3:9What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all 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 →