Job 20:14
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13though he spares it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24[to be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou have broken may rejoice.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 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:… Read the whole commentary →