Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
16He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:8The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
Matthew 27:3Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,
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 →