Job 20:16
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: God shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- KJV
- He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- WEB
- He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
- ASV
- He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper`s tongue shall slay him.
- DARBY
- He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
- BLB
- The poison of cobras he will suck, [and] the tongue of a viper will kill him.
- ÅB
- Ormegift må han innsuge; huggormens tunge dreper ham.
- OTB
- Han vil dra inn kobragift;
huggormens tunge vil felle ham. - B1930
- Ormegift må han innsuge; huggormens tunge dreper ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 28:3–6
And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Read in contextRomans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Read in contextMatthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Read in contextIsaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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