Job 15:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ How much less that which is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Common English Bible

¹⁶ how much less those who are abominable and corrupt, for they drink sin like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?

Job 15:16 Cross References

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Job 34:7

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Psalm 53:3

They have all fallen away; they are all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 20:12

“Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth, though they hide it under their tongues,

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Job 15:17

“I will show you; listen to me; what I have seen I will declare—