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how much lessאַף כִּיone abominableנִתְעָבand corrupt,וְנֶאֱלָחa manאִישׁwho drinksשֹׁתֶהinjusticeעַוְלָהlike water.כַמַּיִם
Job 15:16
Study it in the app“how much less one abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 15:16, word by word
- one abominableנִתְעָבnitav
abhor
To reject something in disgust, or be rejected so.
Where else “nitav” appears- and corruptנֶאֱלָחneelach
become corrupt
To be corrupted, to go bad morally, like something that turns sour or muddy.
Where else “neelach” appears- a manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears- who drinksשֹׁתֶהshote
drink
Drink.
Where else “shote” appears- injusticeעַוְלָהavla
injustice, wrong
Injustice; what is crooked, what is not right.
Where else “avla” appears- like waterמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears
The context
15Look, in his holy ones he does not trust, and the heavens are not pure in his eyes;
16 · This verse (above)
17I will declare it to you, listen to me; and what I have seen I will recount,