16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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; …
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…
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