Job 15:16
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
Cross References
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Psalms 14:1For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
Romans 3:9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike 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 →