Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"
New American Standard Bible
Man, who
King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Holman Bible
who drinks injustice
A Conservative Version
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!
Amplified
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
Bible in Basic English
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Darby Translation
How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Julia Smith Translation
How much more abominable and corrupt is man drinking iniquity as water!
King James 2000
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
Modern King James verseion
How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?
NET Bible
how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
New Heart English Bible
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water.
The Emphasized Bible
How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.
Webster
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
World English Bible
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Youngs Literal Translation
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:16
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Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
15 Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them, 16 then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?" 17 "I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,
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Cross References
Job 34:7
"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,
Proverbs 19:28
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the wicked person feeds on iniquity.
Job 4:19
how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?
Job 20:12
Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue,
Job 42:6
As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
Psalm 14:1-3
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
Psalm 53:3
All of them have fallen away; together they have become corrupt; no one does what is good, not even one.
Romans 1:28-30
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
Romans 3:9-19
What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.
Titus 3:3
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.