Job 15:16
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
17I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
Cross References
Job 4:19Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
Job 34:7What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
Psalms 14:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, and done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 19:28A wicked witnes mocketh at iudgement, and the mouth of ye wicked swalloweth vp iniquitie.
Romans 3:9What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,
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 →