Job 20:16
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
In Context
15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
17Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:17The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.
Matthew 3:7But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
Romans 3:13Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes 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 →