Verse 16
Job 15:16
Noah Webster Bible
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How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַ֭ף כִּֽי נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽ/נֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַ/מַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה
English Translation
Even if he is detestable and loathed, a man drinks like water wrongdoing.
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Chapter 15 Context
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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God (Elohim).
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For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yes, thy own lips testify against thee.
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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Hast thou heard the secret of God (Elohim)? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than thy father.
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Are the consolations of God (Elohim) small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God (Elohim), and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
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I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen, I will declare;
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it :
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To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor...
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A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying , Where is it ? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready a...
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the ba...
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God (Elohim), and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become...
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection...
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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his m...
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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of brib...
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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