14 (A)What is man, (B)that he can be pure?
    Or he who is (C)born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15 Behold, God[a] (D)puts no trust in his (E)holy ones,
    and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 (F)how much less one who is abominable and (G)corrupt,
    a man who (H)drinks injustice like water!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:15 Hebrew he

14 “What is a human being, that he can be clean,
or[a] that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15 Look, he does not trust his holy ones,
and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
16 How much less[b] he who is abominable and corrupt,[c]
a man drinking wickedness like water.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:14 Or “and”
  2. Job 15:16 Literally “Also for,” or “Indeed for,” or “Indeed that”
  3. Job 15:16 Or “he who is corrupt”