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Job 20:12 KJV
Job · chapter 20 · verse 12
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;Job 20:12 · King James Version
Job 20:12 in context
10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- sweetmâthaqto suck, by implication, to relish, or be sweetH4985 →
- mouthpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
- hidekâchadto secrete, by act or wordH3582 →
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The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22