Job 20:14
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Majority Standard Bible
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 cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has 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 →