Job 15:16
Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
Cross References
Job 4:19But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.
Job 34:7What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?
Psalms 14:1A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? and who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?
Proverbs 19:28He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgments.
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 →