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Job 15:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? "
Job 15:16
Verse in Context
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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.
16 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:
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Job 15:1
"Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"
Job 15:2
"Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?"
Job 15:3
"Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"
Job 15:4
"Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God."
Job 15:5
"For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty."
Job 15:6
"Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee."
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