KJV King James Version
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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Job 20:14
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
WEB World English Bible
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
ASV American Standard Version
Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.
Surrounding context — Job 20
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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Romans 3:13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:Psalm 38:1-8A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.Malachi 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.2 Samuel 11:2-5And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.Deuteronomy 32:24[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.Proverbs 23:29-35Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Psalm 51:8-9Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.Jeremiah 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.Psalm 32:3-4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Proverbs 23:20-21Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:2 Samuel 12:10-11Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
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