Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
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.
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!
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 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. 17 I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
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Cross References
Job 34:7
Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
Job 4:19
Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 20:12
Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
Job 42:6
Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.
Psalm 14:1-3
To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.
Psalm 53:3
Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.
Romans 1:28-30
And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
Romans 3:9-19
What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
Titus 3:3
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;