Job 20:13
Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
In Context
12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
Cross References
Numbers 11:18And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;
Mark 9:43And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.
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 →