Job 20:14
His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
15The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
2 Samuel 12:10Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife.
Psalms 32:3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
Psalms 51:8For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
Proverbs 20:17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of 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 →