Job 20:14
His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him.
Leeser Tanakh
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 cherish it, and not forsake it; and hold it back within his palate;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter deadly disease; also the tooth of beasts will I let loose against them, with the poison of serpents that crawl in the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10And now, the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever; for the reason that thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Psalms 51:8(51:10) Cause me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast crushed may rejoice.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is pleasant to a man; but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel-stones.
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath quarrels? who hath complaints? 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 →