Job 20:14
His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
In Context
13Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.
2 Samuel 12:10'And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife;
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 51:8Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.
Proverbs 20:17Sweet to a man [is] the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled [with] gravel.
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? 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 →