Parallel Verses
Amplified
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and 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
International Standard Version
then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"
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!
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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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
15
“Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels);
Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight—
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
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Cross References
Job 34:7
“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,
Proverbs 19:28
A wicked and worthless witness mocks justice,
And the mouth of the wicked spreads iniquity.
Job 4:19
‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
Job 20:12
“Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,
Job 42:6
“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]
And I repent in dust and ashes.”
Psalm 14:1-3
They are corrupt, they have committed repulsive and unspeakable deeds;
There is no one who does good.
Psalm 53:3
Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;
Together they have become filthy and corrupt;
There is no one who does good, no, not even one.
Romans 1:28-30
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or consider Him worth knowing [as their Creator], God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do things which are improper and repulsive,
Romans 3:9-19
Well then, are we [Jews] better off than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) are under the control of sin and subject to its power.
Titus 3:3
For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.