Job 20:13
He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
In Context
12For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
14His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
Cross References
Numbers 11:18You shall also say to the people: Be sanctified. Tomorrow you will eat flesh. For I have heard you say: ‘Who will give us flesh to eat? It was well with us in Egypt.’ So then, may the Lord give you flesh. And you will eat,
Mark 9:43where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.
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 →