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Job 15:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

How much more abominable and filthyq is man, which drinkethr iniquity like water?

Psa. 53:3• ³Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Psa. 53:3)

Job 20:12• ¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; (Job 20:12)

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. (Prov. 19:28)

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How much.Rather, "How much less {aph kee,} abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.abominable.

Job 4:19• ¹⁹How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? (Job 4:19)

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Job 42:6• ⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:6)

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Psa. 14:1‑3• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> 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.
²The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
³They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Psa. 14:1‑3)

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Psa. 53:3• ³Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Psa. 53:3)

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Rom. 1:28‑30• ²⁸And 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;
²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:28‑30)

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Rom. 3:9‑19• ⁹What 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;
¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:
¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:
¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:
¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.
¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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Job 20:12• ¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; (Job 20:12)

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Job 34:7• ⁷What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? (Job 34:7)

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. (Prov. 19:28)

• But is not Eliphaz one of these, as well as the poor sufferer? Why then apply it to Job as though it proved him a sinner above all others? This, surely, is more like crafty speech than all the hot utterances of Job. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

How much less the abominable and corrupt,—man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!