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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 together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. (Psa. 53:3)

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

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down 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 them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as 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• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.
²Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
³They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. (Psa. 14:1‑3)

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Psa. 53:3• ³Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. (Psa. 53:3)

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Rom. 1:28‑30• ²⁸And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, 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? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
¹⁰according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;
¹¹there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
¹²All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:
¹³their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:
¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
¹⁵swift their feet to shed blood;
¹⁶ruin and misery are in their ways,
¹⁷and way of peace they have not known:
¹⁸there is no fear of God before their eyes.
¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

drinketh.

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

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

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Prov. 19:28• ²⁸A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down 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!