Job 15:16

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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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....
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.
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...
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 ve...
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 ); corr...
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,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Drinketh ] thirsts after, is greedy for. 17-35. Eliphaz describes, doubtless as a warning to Job, the troubled conscience and inevitable doom of...
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, other...
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 fa...
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...
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...
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 sain...
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 bec...
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 there...
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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
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 delightfu...
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 litt...
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...
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...
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 orde...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How much more abominable and filthy is man, or, "much less, then, is the utterly corrupt man," which drinketh iniquity like water? The characterist...
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, especia...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 15:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 15:16