Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
Job 15:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- KJV
- How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- WEB
- how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
- ASV
- How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
- LSV
- Also—surely abominable and filthy || Is man drinking perverseness as water.
- YLT
- Also — surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
- DBY
- How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
- DRC
- How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
- GNV
- How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
- JPS
- How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
- LXXE
- Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֭ף כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἔα δὲ ἐβδελυγμένος καὶ ἀκάθαρτος ἀνὴρ, πίνων ἀδικίας ἶσα ποτῷ.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
EliphazFilth; Filthiness; FilthyUncharitablenessSinEliphaz (2)Fall of Man, TheDepravity of ManSinWicked (People)
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
- Titus 3:3For 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 3:9–19What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands,…
- Psalms 53:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- Romans 1:28–30Furthermore, 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. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They…
- Psalms 14:1–3The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. All…
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 20:12Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
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