Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:14 in other translations
| BSB | yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him. |
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| WEB | yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. |
| ASV | Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. |
| YLT | His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart. |
| DARBY | His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him. |
| BBE | His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. |
| Webster | Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
What does Job 20:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 20:10-22
The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hiding it and keeping it under his tongue, denotes concealment of his beloved lust, and delight therein. But He who knows what is in the heart, knows what is under the tongue, and will discover it. The love of the world, and of the wealth of it, also is wickedness, and man…
Job 20:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 20:14
- Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
- 2 Samuel 11:2-5
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath–sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- Psalms 38:1-8
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. …
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Proverbs 23:20-21
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Proverbs 23:29-35
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. …
- Proverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 51:8-9
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
- Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
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Context
- Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:15
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Su comida se mudará en sus entrañas, hiel de áspides será dentro de él. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Son pain sera changé dans ses entrailles en un fiel d’aspic au-dedans de lui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so ist doch nun seine Speise in seinen Eingeweiden verwandelt; Natterngalle ist in seinem Innern. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Panis ejus in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus. |