Job 15:16
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Key Terms in This Verse
אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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