Job 15:16 “how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like…”

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

World English Bible

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

American Standard Version

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Geneva Bible 1599

How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

Darby Translation

How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

Young's Literal Translation

Also — surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

Bible in Basic English

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

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Cross references

“abominable”

Psalm 53:3 Romans 3:9–19 Titus 3:3 Job 4:19 Job 42:6 Psalm 14:1–3

Psalm 53:3 · BSB

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Romans 3:9–19 · BSB

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

Titus 3:3 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Job 4:19 · BSB

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 42:6 · BSB

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalm 14:1–3 · BSB

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

“drinketh”

Job 34:7 Proverbs 19:28 Job 20:12

Job 34:7 · BSB

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Proverbs 19:28 · BSB

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

Job 20:12 · BSB

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

Read Job 15