Job 15:16

Footnotes

1. 31 The two descriptions here used are “abominable,” meaning “disgusting” (a Niphal participle with the value of a Latin participle [see §116.e]), and “corrupt” (a Niphal participle which occurs only in Pss 14:3 and 53:4), always in a moral sense. On the significance of the first description, see P. Humbert, “Le substantif toʾēbā et le verbe tʾb dans l’Ancien Testament,” 72 [1960]: 217ff.). On the second word, G. R. Driver suggests from Arabic, “debauched with luxury, corrupt” (“Some Hebrew Words,” 29 [1927/28]: 390–96).
2. 32 Man commits evil with the same ease and facility as he drinks in water—freely and in large quantities.