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Job 15:16
16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up 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?
- 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!
- New Living Translation (NLT)How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
Context of Job 15:16
14“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous? 15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water! 17“Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen, 18what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received 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 those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
- Job 42:6Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
- Psalms 14:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
- Psalms 53:3Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
- Romans 3:9What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
- Job 20:12“Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
- Job 34:7Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
- Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
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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