Job 20:16
He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
In Context
15The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
17(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
Cross References
Proverbs 11:17A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.
Matthew 3:7Then, seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees arriving for his baptism, he said to them: “Progeny of vipers, who warned you to flee from the approaching wrath?
Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps 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 →