New English Translation
Job 15:16
16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil 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, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! 17“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, 18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,
Read all of Job 15Job 15:16 word by word
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:16
- Job 4:19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
- Job 42:6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
- Psalms 14:1Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
- Psalms 53:3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
- Romans 1:28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
- Romans 3:9What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
- Job 20:12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
- Proverbs 19:28A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours 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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