How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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Gill's Exposition
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 to…
Barnes' Notes
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 divine…
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…
Cambridge Bible
According to the Hebrew punctuation the verse runs,
How much less the abominable and corrupt,
Man, which drinketh in iniquity like water.
The word "corrupt," only here and Psa 14:3 (Psa 53:3),…
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