Job 15:16
How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Behold, in his holy ones he putteth no trust; and the heavens are not pure in his eyes:
17I will instruct thee, hear me; and what I have seen will I relate;
Cross References
Job 4:19How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh scorning like water,
Psalms 14:1“To the chief musician, by David.” The worthless fool saith in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they are abominable [in their] doings, there is none that doth good.
Proverbs 19:28An ungodly witness scorneth at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth mischief.
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 →