Job 15:16

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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

¹⁷ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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!

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.>

Proverbs 19:28
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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Romans 3:9–19
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Psalms 53:3
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Romans 1:28–30
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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Psalms 14:1–3
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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