Job 15:16

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

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

¹⁷ Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

¹⁸ what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

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ÅB: langt mindre da en avskyelig, en fordervet, en mann som drikker urett som vann[^1].
OTB: hvor mye mindre dødelige, som er onde og korrupte,
som drikker urett som vann!
B1930: langt mindre da en vederstyggelig, en fordervet, en mann som drikker urett som vann. / < d.e. er like så begjærlig efter å gjøre urett som den tørstige er efter vann.>

BSB: how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
KJV: How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
WEB: how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
ASV: How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
DARBY: How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
BLB: also surely the abominable and corrupt one [is] a man drinking iniquity like water!

Proverbs 19:28
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
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Romans 3:9–19
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
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Titus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
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Psalms 53:3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
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Romans 1:28–30
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
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Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
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Psalms 14:1–3
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
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