Job 20:12
For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
In Context
11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
13He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
Cross References
Job 15:16How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
Proverbs 20:17The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.
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 →