Job 20:14
Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
15He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10Now therefore the sworde shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Vriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Psalms 32:3When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
Psalms 51:8Make me to heare ioye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, may reioyce.
Proverbs 20:17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
Proverbs 23:29To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the 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 →