Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.
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!
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.
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
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
15 Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes: 16 How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity. 17 I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.
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Cross References
Job 34:7
What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
Proverbs 19:28
An abandoned witness, scorneth justice, and, the mouth of lawless men, swalloweth iniquity.
Job 4:19
How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Job 20:12
Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job 42:6
For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ashes.
Psalm 14:1-3
The impious hath said in his heart - There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 53:3
They all, have turned back, together have they become tainted, - There is none that doeth good, Not so much as, one!
Romans 1:28-30
And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,
Romans 3:9-19
What then? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, all under sin;
Titus 3:3
For, even we, used, at one time, to be - thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.