Job 15:16New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water!
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— How much less the abominable and corrupt,—man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in—like water—perversity.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Even though man should be rejected and afflicted, yet he shall drink iniquity like water.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water? |
How much more
x637 (0637) Complementאַף'aph{af}
A primitive particle; meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjugation); also or yea; adversatively though.
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
abominable
8581 {8581} Primeתָּעַבta`ab{taw-ab'}
A primitive root; to loathe, that is, (morally) detest.
z8737 <8737> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 793
and filthy
444 {0444} Primeאלח'alach{aw-lakh'}
A primitive root; to muddle, that is, (figuratively and intransitively) to turn (morally) corrupt.
z8737 <8737> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 793
[ is] man,
376 {0376} Primeאִישׁ'iysh{eesh}
Contracted for H0582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation.).
which drinketh
8354 {8354} Primeשָׁתָהshathah{shaw-thaw'}
A primitive root; to imbibe (literally or figuratively).
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
iniquity
5766 {5766} Primeעֶוֶל`evel{eh'-vel}
From H5765; (moral) evil.
z8675 <8675> Grammar
Kethiv Reading
Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the qere reading rather than the kethiv.
like water?
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen. |
Job 15:16
Who — Who besides his natural proneness to sin, has contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily and delightfully, as men, especially in those hot countries, drink up water. |
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which (k) drinketh iniquity like water?
(k) Who has a desire to sin, as he who is thirsty to drink. |
- How much:
- Rather, "How much less aph kee, abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.
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- abominable:
Job 4:19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalms 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. ... They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 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; ... Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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; ... Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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.
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- drinketh:
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
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.
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