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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 hath departed;{HR}Together they are become corrupt;{HR}There is none doing good,{HR}Not even one. (Psa. 53:3)

Job 20:12• ¹²Though evil maketh sweet in his mouth —{HR}He hideth it under his tongue, (Job 20:12)

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸A witness of Belial scorneth judgment,{HR}And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth 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 more those who dwell in houses of clay,{HR}The foundation of which [is] in the dust,{HR}Which are crushed as though moths. (Job 4:19)

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Job 42:6• ⁶Therefore do I loathe [myself],{HR}And repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:6)

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Psa. 14:1‑3• ¹To the chief musician, by David.{HR}The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.{HR}They have acted corruptly, they have acted abominably [in] work;{HR}There is none doing good.
²Jehovah hath looked down from heaven upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were [one] acting wisely, seeking God.
³They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one. (Psa. 14:1‑3)

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Psa. 53:3• ³Every one of them hath departed;{HR}Together they are become corrupt;{HR}There is none doing good,{HR}Not even one. (Psa. 53:3)

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Rom. 1:28‑30• ²⁸And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:28‑30)

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Rom. 3:9‑19• ⁹What then? are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
¹⁰even as it is written, “There is none righteous, not one;
¹¹there is not the [man] that understandeth; there is not the [man] that seeketh out God.
¹²All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable; there is none that practiceth kindness, there is not so much as one.”
¹³“An open grave [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; venom of asps [is] under their lips;
¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
¹⁵swift [are] their feet to shed blood;
¹⁶ruin and misery [are] in their ways;
¹⁷and no way of peace they knew.
¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

drinketh.

Job 20:12• ¹²Though evil maketh sweet in his mouth —{HR}He hideth it under his tongue, (Job 20:12)

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Job 34:7• ⁷Who [is] a man like Job?{HR}He drinketh mockery like water, (Job 34:7)

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸A witness of Belial scorneth judgment,{HR}And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth 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!

W. Kelly Translation

How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water.