Job 20:14
his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
Literal 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
13has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
15He has swallowed wealth, and vomits it. God drives it out from his belly.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24Exhausted by famine, || And consumed by heat and bitter destruction—I also send the teeth of beasts on them, || With poison of fearful things of the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house for all time, because you have despised Me, and take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be for a wife for yourself;
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, my bones have become old, || Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 51:8You cause me to hear joy and gladness, || You make bones You have bruised joyful.
Proverbs 20:17The bread of falsehood [is] sweet to a man, || And afterward his mouth is filled [with] gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has 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 →