Job 20:14
His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
15The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They will be consumed by famine, and birds with a very bitter bite will devour them. I will send forth the teeth of wild beasts among them, along with the fury of creatures that scurry across the ground, and of serpents.
2 Samuel 12:10For this reason, the sword shall not withdraw from your house, even perpetually, because you have despised me, and you have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, so that she may be your wife.’
Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation.
Psalms 51:8The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:
Proverbs 20:17The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?
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 →