Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
注釈
Study Note
'How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water' — Eliphaz's second speech deploys rhetorical hyperbole to reinforce his doctrine of universal human corruption as the explanation for Job's suffering. The 'drinking iniquity like water' metaphor suggests compulsive, natural, and insatiable appetite for sin — an image later echoed in Proverbs 26:6 and reversed positively in Amos 5:24 ('let justice roll down like waters'). While Eliphaz's dogmatic retributionism is ultimately condemned by God in Job 42:7, this specific observation about human corruption finds resonance in the broader biblical anthropology of Psalm 51:5 and Romans 3:23.
他の翻訳
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
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