Job 20:14
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
Bible in Basic English
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 takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
Psalms 32:3When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Psalms 51:8\51:6\Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
Proverbs 23:29Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
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 →