| Job 20:12 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Though evil is sweet in his mouth And he hides it under his tongue, (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue....(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| ASV: | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, |
| BBE: | Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; |
| DBY: | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue, |
| ERV: | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| JPS: | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| WBS: | Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue; |
| WEB: | "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, |
| YLT: | Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, |
| Job 20:12 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 15:16 How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water! (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 20:12 Though wickedness be {f} sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
(f) As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction when it comes into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but God later turns it to destruction. |
| WES: | 20:12 Mouth - To his taste; though it greatly please him for the present. Hide - As an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he keeps and rolls about his mouth, that he may longer enjoy the pleasure of it. |
| MHC: | 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 sets his heart upon these. Also violence and injustice, these sins bring God's judgments upon nations and families. Observe the punishment of the wicked man for these things. Sin is turned into gall, than which nothing is more bitter; it will prove to him poison; so will all unlawful gains be. In his fulness he shall be in straits, through the anxieties of his own mind. To be led by the sanctifying grace of God to restore what was unjustly gotten, as Zaccheus was, is a great mercy. But to be forced to restore by the horrors of a despairing conscience, as Judas was, has no benefit and comfort attending it. |
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