God’s Word Translation
Job 15:16
16how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness 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
14Why should a mortal be considered faultless or someone born of a woman be considered righteous? 15If God doesn’t trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight, how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness like water. 17“I’ll tell you; listen to me! I’ll relate what I have seen. 18I’ll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors.
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 accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust. Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!
- Job 42:6That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.”
- Psalms 14:1Godless fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. There is no one who does good things.
- Psalms 53:3Everyone has fallen away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one, not even one person, does good things.
- Romans 1:28And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.
- Romans 3:9What, then, is the situation? Do we have any advantage? Not at all. We have already accused everyone (both Jews and Greeks) of being under the power of sin,
- Job 20:12“Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue….
- Job 34:7What person is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
- Proverbs 19:28A worthless witness mocks justice, and the mouths of wicked people swallow up trouble.
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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