Job 15:16
How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 tell 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 scorning like water?
Psalms 14:1For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, they have done abominably; there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 19:28An ungodly witness mocketh at right; and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
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 →