Parallel Verses
Webster
How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity 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!
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.
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.
Interlinear
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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 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water? 17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen, I will declare;
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Cross References
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Proverbs 19:28
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Job 20:12
Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 14:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 53:3
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans 1:28-30
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 3:9-19
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.