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Job 15:16
16How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt, Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
Job 15:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- New International Version (NIV)how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
- English Standard Version (ESV)how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
- New King James Version (NKJV)How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water!
Context of Job 15:16
14What is man, that he should be pure and clean, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just? 15Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels); Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight— How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt, Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water! 17“I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare; 18What wise men have [freely] told, And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,
Read all of Job 15Job 15:16 word by word
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:16
- Job 4:19How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, Whose foundations are in the dust, Who are crushed like a moth.
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself] And I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Psalms 14:1The [spiritually ignorant] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed repulsive and unspeakable deeds; There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 53:3Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away; Together they have become filthy and corrupt; There is no one who does good, no, not even one.
- Romans 1:28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or consider Him worth knowing [as their Creator], God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do things which are improper and repulsive,
- Romans 3:9Well then, are we [Jews] better off than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) are under the control of sin and subject to its power.
- Job 20:12“Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth And he hides it under his tongue,
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, Who drinks up derision like water,
- Proverbs 19:28A wicked and worthless witness mocks justice, And the mouth of the wicked spreads iniquity.
Commentaries on Job 15:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16How much more abominable and filthy is man - As in the preceding verse it is said, he putteth no trust in his saints, it has appeared both to translators and commentators that the original words, כי אף aph ki, should be rendered how much Less, not how much More: How much less would he put confidence in man, who is filthy and abominable in his natures and profligate in his practice, as he drinks down iniquity like water? A man who is under the power of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16How much more abominable and filthy is man - How much more than the angels, and than the heavens. In Job 4:19, the image is somewhat different. There it is, how can man be the object of the divine confidence since he lives in a house of clay, and is so frail? Here the image is more striking and forcible. The word rendered filthy (אלח 'âlach ) means, in Arabic, to be sour, as milk, and then to be corrupt, in a moral sense; Psalm 14:3; Psalm 53:4. Here it…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. filthy--in Arabic "sour" (Psa 14:3; 53:3), corrupted from his original purity. drinketh--(Pr 19:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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