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

Bible Comments

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, especially in those hot countries, used to drink up water. But this did not Job; and therefore though the things delivered by him and the rest be true in the general, yet they commit a great error in misapplying them to Job, for which therefore they are afterwards reproved.

Job 15:16

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