Job 15:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which 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 scorning like water?
• Prov 19:28 : 28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, 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 have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, 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 are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 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 saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which 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 To 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 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them is gone back{H8804)}: they are altogether become filthy{H8738)}; there is none that doeth{H8802)} good, no, not one.