"How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!" The final step in Eliphaz's argument: humans, far below celestial beings, are thoroughly corrupt. The image of drinking injustice suggests that humans are not merely sinful by nature but actively pursue and consume wrongdoing. Job is compressed into this category of humans who are abominable and corrupt.

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