| Job 20:16 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. A viper's fang kills him.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| ASV: | He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| BBE: | He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. |
| DBY: | He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him. |
| ERV: | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| JPS: | He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| WBS: | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| WEB: | He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him. |
| YLT: | Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. |
| Job 20:16 Cross References |
| XREF: | Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:33 "Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of cobras. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 20:16 He shall suck the {g} poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
(g) He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps, which is a dangerous serpent, noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same. |
| 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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