Job 20:14

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

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.

LSV

his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לַ֭חְמוֹ בְּמֵעָ֣יו נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ מְרוֹרַ֖ת פְּתָנִ֣ים בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

καὶ οὐ μὴ δυνηθῇ βοηθῆσαι ἑαυτῷ· χολὴ ἀσπίδος ἐν γαστρὶ αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
• Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Proverbs 23:29–35Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when…
• Deuteronomy 32:24They 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.
• Psalms 51:8–9Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
• Psalms 32:3–4When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Psalms 38:1–8O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no…
• Proverbs 23:20–21Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
• 2 Samuel 11:2–5One 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. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This…
• 2 Samuel 12:10–11Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you…
• Jeremiah 2:19Your 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 2:2If 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…
• Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

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