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Job 20:16 KJV
Job · chapter 20 · verse 16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.Job 20:16 · King James Version
Job 20:16 in context
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18That 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- viper'sʼephʻehan asp or other venomous serpentH660 →
- poisonrôʼsha poisonous plant, probably the poppyH7219 →
- tonguelâshôwnthe tongue , used literally , and figurativelyH3956 →
- suckyânaqto suckH3243 →
- aspspethenan aspH6620 →
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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