Job 15:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 15:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy is man - How much more than the angels, and than the heavens. In Job 4:19 , the image is somewhat different. There it is, how can man be the object of the div...

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• Job 15:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which (k) drinketh iniquity like water? (k) Who has a desire to sin, as he who is thirsty to drink.

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• Job 15:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 15:2-19 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent ( Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion ( Job 15:4 ) and breaks the reverential...

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• Job 15:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? How much more abominable and filthy is man - As in the preceding verse it is said, he putteth no trust in his saints,...

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• Job 15:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Filthy - in Arabic, sour ( Psalms 14:3 ; Psalms 53:3 ); corrupted from his original purity. Drinketh - ( P...

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• Job 15:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he...

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• Job 15:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy is man... — This strong language, thus couched in general terms, is doubtless intended to reflect on Job, otherwise it would not need to have been so strong.

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• Job 15:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...

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• Job 15:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...

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• Job 15:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using...

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• Job 15:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (15) Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. (...

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• Job 15:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  How much more abominable and filthy [is] man ,.... In his natural, corrupt, and unregenerate estate; man, as a creature, was not abominable, but becoming sinful he is; he is so in himself, cast out...

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• Job 15:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Ver. 16. How much more abominable and filthy is man? ] And therefore abominable because filthy, or stinking and no...

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• Job 15:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  How much more abominable and filthy is man If saints are not to be trusted, much less sinners. If the heavens are not pure; if heavenly beings, who maintained their allegiance to their Maker, are n...

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• Job 15:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of consid...

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• Job 15:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,  ...

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• Job 15:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Who, besides his natural proneness to sin, hath contracted habits and customs of sinning, and sinneth as freely and easily, as greedily and delightfully, as frequently and abundantly, as men, especia...

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• Job 15:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s cou...

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• Job 15:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm...

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• Job 15:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  What is man that he should be clean? Original sin Of all the truths acknowledged and assumed in this ancient book, we find none more clearly or readily confessed than that of man’s original sin...

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• Job 15:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each spea...

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• Job 15:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

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• Job 15:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 20:12 ; Job 34:7 ; Job 4:19 ; Job 42:6 ; Proverbs 19:28 ; Psalms 14:1-3 ; Psalms 53:3 ; Romans 1:28-30 ; Romans 3:9-19 ; Titus 3:3

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• Job 15:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Who — Who besides his natural proneness to sin, has contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily and delightfully, as men, especially in those hot countries, drink up water.

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