Job 15:16
“How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?”
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Job 15:16 Context
14What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight. 16How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water? 17I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare, 18Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it:
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Other Translations for Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- King James Version
How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water!
- New American Standard Version (1995)
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
- American Standard Version (1901)
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
- Basic English Bible
How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
- Darby Bible
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
- Webster's Bible
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
- World English Bible
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
- Youngs Literal Bible
How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 15:16
15:16 Who - Who besides his natural proneness to sin, has contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily and delightfully, as men, especially in those hot countries, drink up water.