How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;