Job 20:14
Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? 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 →