Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionHow much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GHow much less man—detestable and corrupt, one who drinks down injustice like water!
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageHow much less a man who is vile and rotten to the core—who drinks down wickedness like water!
BSB
Berean Standard Biblehow much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Footnotes
The verb *shoteh* ("drinks") applied to *avlah* ("injustice/wickedness") is viscerally powerful: wickedness is not merely committed but consumed, craved, absorbed as naturally as water. The pairing *nit'av ve-ne'elach* ("detestable and corrupt") heaps up the language of ritual filth and moral putrefaction. *Ne'elach* is rare, implying something utterly spoiled—like rancid food. Together they paint not a sinner but a creature thoroughly marinated in moral corruption. FOG renders the clinical language of contamination; FOG Message adds "to the core" to amplify the thoroughgoing nature of the decay.
