Job 15:16
How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in—like water—perversity.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
In Context
15Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:
17I will tell thee—hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Job 34:7What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
Psalms 14:1The impious hath said in his heart—There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 19:28An abandoned witness, scorneth justice, and, the mouth of lawless men, swalloweth iniquity.
Romans 3:9What then? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, 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 →