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Job 15:16 KJV
Job · chapter 15 · verse 16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?Job 15:16 · King James Version
Job 15:16 in context
14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- abominabletaʻâbto loatheH8581 →
- drinkethshâthâhto imbibeH8354 →
- iniquityʻevelevilH5766 →
- filthyʼâlachto muddleH444 →
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Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16