Job 15:16
How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quanto magis abominabilis et inutilis homo, qui bibit quasi aquam iniquitatem ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔα δὲ ἐβδελυγμένος καὶ ἀκάθαρτος, ἀνὴρ πίνων ἀδικίας ἴσα ποτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַ֭ף כִּֽי נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Water, with the utmost avidity and unconcern, Proverbs x. 23., and xxvi. 6.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.