Job 15:16

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

…also surely the abominable and corrupt one is a man drinking iniquity like water!

Latin

Quanto magis abominabilis et inutilis homo, qui bibit quasi aquam iniquitatem?

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

Proverbs 19:28
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Psalm 53:3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Titus 3:3
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.
Romans 3:9–19
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.
Romans 1:28–30
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Psalm 14:1–3
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Job 4:19
…how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 20:12
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,