Job 20:13
11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
- KJV
- Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- WEB
- though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
- ASV
- Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
- DARBY
- [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
- BLB
- he has pity on it and does not forsake it, and he withholds it in the midst of his palate.
- ÅB
- sparer han på det og slipper det ikke, men holder det tilbake under sin gane,
- OTB
- selv om han verdsetter den og ikke slipper den,
men holder den i sin munn, - B1930
- sparer han på det og slipper det ikke, men holder det tilbake under sin gane,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Read in contextMatthew 5:29–30
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Read in contextMark 9:43–49
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Read in contextNumbers 11:18–20
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
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