Job 20:14
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
World English Bible Updated
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,
15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Proverbs 20:17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? 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 →