Job 15:16

WEB

¹⁶how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

KJV

¹⁶How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

BSB

¹⁶how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

FBV

¹⁶How much less pure are those who are unclean and corrupt, drinking in sin like water!

Extra References

Proverbs 19:28

²⁸A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

Job 34:7

⁷What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Titus 3:3

³For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

⁹What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. ¹⁰As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. ¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. ¹²They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.”“The poison of vipers is under their lips.”¹⁴“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”¹⁵“Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways. ¹⁷The way of peace, they haven’t known.”¹⁸“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Psalms 53:3

³Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Job 42:6

⁶Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 20:12

¹²“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Psalms 14:1-3

¹The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. ²The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Romans 1:28-30

²⁸Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, ³⁰backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Job 4:19

¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!