Job 15:16

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How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

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  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
  • Prov 19:28 : 28 A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin; 10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness; 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; 12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: 15 Their feet are quick in running after blood; 16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways; 17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Job 20:12 : 12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
  • Job 42:6 : 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. 2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God. 3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

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  • Job 34:7-8
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    7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

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  • Hab 2:15-16
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    15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

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  • Job 14:3-4
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    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

    4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

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    17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

  • Hab 1:13
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    13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

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    6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Isa 1:22
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    22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

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    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

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    8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Prov 25:26
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    26 Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Isa 32:6
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    6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

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    5 Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

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    8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

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    3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

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    16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

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    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

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    12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

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    4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

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    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

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    11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

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    22 For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

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    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

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    36 But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.

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    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

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    15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

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    16 Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

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    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

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    27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

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    6 By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

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    20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

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    34 Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.

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    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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    2 Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,

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    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

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    13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.