Job 15:16
How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
17I will shew thee, hear me : and I mill tell thee what I have seen.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Psalms 14:1Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.
Proverbs 19:28An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Romans 3:9What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are 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 →