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Job 15:16
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how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,who drinks injustice like water?
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
How much less pure is one who is terrible and rotten and drinks up evil as if it were water!
how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt, Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
How much less one who is detestable and corrupt: A person who drinks malice like water!
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt,Man, who drinks unrighteousness like water!
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
what chance do humans have? We are so terribly evil that we thirst for sin.
How much less one loathesome and corrupt, a human being, who drinks iniquity like water.
How much less the abominable and corrupt,—man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
People are even worse. They are disgusting and dirty. They drink up evil like water.
Even though man should be rejected and afflicted, yet he shall drink iniquity like water.
And we drink evil as if it were water; yes, we are corrupt; we are worthless.
How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
How much more loathed and corrupted is man who drinks injustice like water!
How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water.
Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!
How myche more a man abhomynable and vnprofitable, that drynkith wickidnesse as water?
How much less one that is disgusting and corrupt, A man that drinks iniquity like water!
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
How much less one who is hated and sinful, a man who drinks sin like water!
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.
How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How much: Rather, "How much less aph kee, abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.
abominable: Job 4:19, Job 42:6, Psalms 14:1-3, Psalms 53:3, Romans 1:28-30, Romans 3:9-19, Titus 3:3
drinketh: Job 20:12, Job 34:7, Proverbs 19:28
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:5 - every imagination Job 4:18 - he put Psalms 14:3 - filthy Psalms 17:4 - works Psalms 36:4 - abhorreth Psalms 53:1 - Corrupt Proverbs 14:9 - Fools Ecclesiastes 3:18 - concerning Ecclesiastes 9:3 - also Matthew 7:11 - being Luke 1:35 - that Romans 3:10 - none Ephesians 4:19 - with Titus 1:16 - being Hebrews 9:14 - How
Cross-References
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
And he said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?"
So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt [fn] was four hundred and thirty years.
And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
"And in the latter time of their kingdom, When the transgressors have reached their fullness, A king shall arise, Having fierce features, Who understands sinister schemes.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man,.... In his natural, corrupt, and unregenerate estate; man, as a creature, was not abominable, but becoming sinful he is; he is so in himself, cast out to the loathing of his person, being full of wounds, bruises, and putrefying sores, yea, like a dead corrupted carcass, for he is dead in trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1; and he appears to be corrupt by the abominable works done by him, as all the works of the flesh are; yea, he is abominable to himself, when made sensible of his state and case; he then abhors himself, and repents of his sins, he loathes his sins, and himself for them; and must be much more so in the sight of God, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, as man is nothing else than a mass of sin, and therefore must be "filthy"; for sin is of a defiling nature, it defiles the body and all its members, and the soul with all its powers and faculties: man is naturally and originally filthy, being conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity; nor can a clean thing be brought out of an unclean; he is internally and universally unclean, his heart is a sink of sin, desperately wicked, and wickedness itself; his mind and conscience are defiled, and there is no place clean; and this appears outwardly in his actions, in his life and conversation, which is filthy also: for if the ploughing of the wicked is sin, and the righteousnesses of men are filthy rags, how impure must the immoral actions of wicked men be? man is so impure, that nothing but the blood of Christ can purify his heart, and purge his conscience from dead works, and make white his outward conversation garment:
which drinketh iniquity like water; it is as natural to him to commit iniquity as it is for a man to drink water when he is thirsty, and he does it with equal gust, delight, and pleasure; as cold water is delightful to a thirsty soul, so is sin to a sinner, a sweet morsel he holds in his mouth; various lusts are various pleasures, though these pleasures are but for a season: sin, like water, is easy to be come at, it is near at hand, it easily besets men, and is all around them, and they easily give into it; everyone turns to his wicked course as readily as the horse rushes into the battle; and the phrase may be expressive of the abundance of sin committed, like large draughts of water greedily taken down by a man athirst, and repeated again and again; moreover, as water drank enters into men, and is taken down as an harmless thing, yet often proves very hurtful and pernicious to them when drank while they are hot, and occasions disorders, which issue in death; so sin, though it may seem harmless, and be pleasing and refreshing, going down like water, yet it works like poison, and is the gall of asps within a man, and ends in eternal death, if grace prevents not. This is the conclusion and application of the whole to man, arguing from the greater to the lesser, and so proving the impurity and imperfection of man, and that he cannot be clean and righteous before God of himself.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How 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; Psalms 14:3; Psalms 53:4. Here it means that man is defiled and polluted, and this declaration is a remarkable illustration of the ancient belief of the depravity of man.
Which drinketh iniquity like water - This is still a true, though a melancholy account of man. He loves sin, and is as greedy of it as a thirsty man is of water. He practices it as if it were his very nature - as much so as it is to drink. Perhaps too there may be an allusion, as Dr. Good supposes, to the large draught of water which the camel makes, implying that man is exceedingly greedy of iniquity; compare Job 20:12; Job 34:7; Proverbs 19:28.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:16. How 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, אף כי 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 sinful propensities commits sin as greedily as the thirsty man or camel drinks down water. He thinks he can never have enough. This is a finished character of a BAD man; he hungers and thirsts after SIN: on the contrary, the GOOD man hungers and thirsts after RIGHTEOUSNESS.
