Job 20:14 “yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.”

Job 20:14

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

World English Bible

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

American Standard Version

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

Darby Translation

His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

Young's Literal Translation

His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.

Bible in Basic English

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

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Cross references

“his meat”

2 Samuel 11:2–5 Psalm 38:1–8 Proverbs 1:31 Proverbs 23:29–35 Jeremiah 2:19 Malachi 2:2

2 Samuel 11:2–5 · BSB

One 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.

Psalm 38:1–8 · BSB

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Proverbs 1:31 · BSB

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 23:29–35 · BSB

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Jeremiah 2:19 · BSB

Your 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 2:2 · BSB

If 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 ar…

“the gall”

Romans 3:13 Job 20:16 Deuteronomy 32:24

Romans 3:13 · BSB

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Job 20:16 · BSB

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Deuteronomy 32:24 · BSB

They 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

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