Job 20:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.”
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BSBPD
“yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps <FI>is<Fi> in his heart.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 20:14 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 12:10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
- Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
- Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- Proverbs 23:20Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
- Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
- Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
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