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to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

Job 15:16

How much.Rather, "How much less {aph kee,} abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.

abominable.

4:19; 42:6; Ps 14:1-3; 53:3; Ro 1:28-30; 3:9-19; Tit 3:3

drinketh.

20:12; 34:7; Pr 19:28

Proverbs 6:18

heart.

24:8; Ge 6:5; Ps 36:4; Jer 4:14; Mic 2:1; Zec 8:17

feet.

1:16; Isa 59:7; Ro 3:15

Ecclesiastes 7:29

God.

Ge 1:26,27; 5:1

they.The descendants of Adam have sought out an immense number of inventions, in order to find happiness in the world, without God, which have only proved so many variations of impiety and iniquity.

Ge 3:6,7; 6:5,6,11,12; 11:4-6; Ps 99:8; 106:29,39; Jer 2:12,13

Jer 4:22; Eze 22:6-13; Mr 7:8,9; Ac 7:40-43; Ro 1:21-32; 3:9-19

Eph 2:2,3; Tit 3:3

Ecclesiastes 9:3

also.

8:11; Ge 6:5; 8:21; Job 15:16; Ps 51:5; Jer 17:9; Mt 15:19,20

Mr 7:21-23; Ro 1:29-31; Tit 3:3

and madness.

1:17; 7:25; Lu 6:11; 15:17; Ac 26:11,24; 2Pe 2:16

after.

12:7; Pr 14:32; Ac 12:23

Jeremiah 17:9

16:12; Ge 6:5; 8:21; Job 15:14-16; Ps 51:5; 53:1-3; Pr 28:26; Ec 9:3

Mt 15:19; Mr 7:21,22; Heb 3:12; Jas 1:14,15