Job 20:14
in their stomachs it turns bitter, becoming like snake venom inside them.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13not letting it go but keeping it in their mouths,
15They swallow wealth and vomit it up again; God forces it from their stomachs.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They will waste away from hunger, destroyed by disease and poisonous plague. I will send wild animals to bite them with their teeth, the fangs of snakes that slide along the ground.
2 Samuel 12:10So your descendants will always face the sword that kills because you treated me with contempt and stole Uriah's wife.
Psalms 32:3When I kept quiet, my body fell apart as I groaned in distress all day long.
Psalms 51:8Please let me hear joy and happiness again; let the bones you have crushed be glad once more.
Proverbs 20:17Food you get by cheating may taste sweet, but afterwards it will be like a mouthful of gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who's in trouble? Who's in pain? Who's arguing? Who's complaining? Who's injured for no reason? Who's got bloodshot 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 →