Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
In Context
15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
17He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:17The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?
Romans 3:13Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,
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 →