Job 15:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַף כִּי־נִתְעָב וְנֶאֱלָח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶה כַמַּיִם עַוְלָה

Transliteration

ʾap̄ kî-nitʿāḇ wə-neʾĕlāḥ ʾîš-šōteh ḵammayim ʿawlāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾap̄*: conjunction - how much more/less
• *kî-nitʿāḇ*: conjunction + niphal participle, masculine singular - that is abominable
• *wə-neʾĕlāḥ*: conjunction + niphal participle, masculine singular - and filthy
• *ʾîš-šōteh*: noun, masculine singular construct + qal participle, masculine singular - man drinking
• *ḵammayim*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - like the waters
• *ʿawlāh*: noun, feminine singular - iniquity

Word Meanings

• *tāʿaḇ*: to abhor, detest, be abominable
• *ʾālaḥ*: to be corrupt, tainted, filthy
• *ʾîš*: man, husband, person
• *šātāh*: to drink, consume
• *mayim*: water, waters, fluid
• *ʿawlāh*: injustice, unrighteousness, wickedness

Referenced Verses

• Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
• Prov 19:28 : 28 A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, {G4202} wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; 10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God; 12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one: {G2193} {G1520} 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
• Job 20:12 : 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
• Job 42:6 : 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
• Ps 14:1-3 : 1 For 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. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them is gone back; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.