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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”

14 What are humans that they might be pure,
    and those born of woman that they might be innocent?
15 If he doesn’t trust his holy ones
    and the heavens aren’t pure in his eyes,
16     how much less those who are abominable and corrupt,
        for they drink sin like water.

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