¹⁴ “What^(A) is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
^15 (B)If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
^16 (C)How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
^(D)Who drinks iniquity like water!