Verse 16

How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
  • Prov 19:28 : 28 A worthless witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one." 11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God." 12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. 13 "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips." 14 Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Ruin and misery mark their paths. 17 And the way of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 20:12 : 12 Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 53:3 : 3 God looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.