Job 15:16
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
American Standard Version
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; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
17I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which 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 before the moth!
Job 34:7What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 19:28A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
Romans 3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of 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 →