Job 15:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?”
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“how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?”
King James Version · Public Domain“How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 15:16 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Psalms 14:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 53:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, 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.
- Romans 3:9What 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 3:3For 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.
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