New Living Translation
Job 15:16
16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
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
14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just? 15Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight. How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness! 17“If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience. 18And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing 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 less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
- Job 42:6I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
- Psalms 14:1Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!
- Psalms 53:3But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one!
- Romans 1:28Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
- Romans 3:9Well then, should we conclude that we Jews are better than others? No, not at all, for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin.
- Job 20:12“They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness, letting it melt under their tongue.
- Job 34:7“Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
- Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness makes a mockery of justice; 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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