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Job 15:16
Job 15:16 is verse 16 of Job chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
King James Version
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
World English Bible
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
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Job 15:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
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,
16 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,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Psalms 14:1The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
Psalms 14:2The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
Psalms 14:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalms 53:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Romans 1:28Furthermore, 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.
Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Romans 3:9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
Romans 3:10As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Romans 3:11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
Romans 3:12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Romans 3:14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Romans 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Romans 3:16ruin and misery lie in their wake,
Romans 3:17and the way of peace they have not known.”
Romans 3:18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Titus 3:3For 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.
Job 20:12Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Proverbs 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.