Verse 16

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hvor mye mindre er da den som er avskyelig og fordervet, mennesket som drikker urett som om det var vann?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og skittent er mennesket, som drikker urettferdighet som vann?

• Norsk King James

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og uren er mennesket, som drikker urettferdighet som vann?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  hvor mye mer avskyelig og fordervet er ikke en mann som drikker urettferdighet som vann?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Så hva da med en foraktelig og fordervet mann som drikker urettferdighet som vann?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og uren er da mennesket, som drikker synd som vann?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og urent er mennesket, som inntar urett som om det var vann?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og uren er da mennesket, som drikker synd som vann?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hvor mye mindre da det avskyelige og fordervede mennesket som drikker ondskap som vann!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Job.15.16", "source": "אַף כִּי־נִתְעָב וְנֶאֱלָח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶה כַמַּיִם עַוְלָה", "text": "*ʾap̄* *kî-nitʿāḇ* *wə-neʾĕlāḥ* *ʾîš-šōteh* *ḵammayim* *ʿawlāh*", "grammar": { "*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" }, "variants": { "*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" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hvor mye mindre da den som er avskyelig og fordervet, et menneske som drikker urett som vann!

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  hvor meget mere er den Mand vederstyggelig og stinkende (for ham), der drikker Uretfærdighed som Vand?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hvor mye mer avskyelig og skitten er et menneske som drikker urett som vann?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvor mye mindre en som er avskyelig og korrupt, en mann som drikker urett som vann!

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Også – sannelig er mennesket avskyelig og skittent, som drikker ondskap som vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvor mye mindre gjelder det en avskyelig og korrupt mann, som drikker urett som vann!

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvor mye mindre én som er avskyelig og uren, en mann som tar til seg ondskap som vann!

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

  how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Referenced Verses

• Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
• Prov 19:28 : 28 An ungodly witness scorns judgment, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various 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 debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged 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 who understands, there is none who seeks after God.' 12 'They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.' 13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers 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 they have not known:' 18 'There is no fear of God before their eyes.' 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those 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 those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
• Job 20:12 : 12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
• Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
• Ps 14:1-3 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God. 3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.