Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
Job 20:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- KJV
- He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- WEB
- He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
- ASV
- He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- LSV
- He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
- YLT
- Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
- DBY
- He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
- DRC
- He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.
- GNV
- He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
- JPS
- He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
- LXXE
- And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Θυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Acts 28:3–6Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand. When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another,…
- Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- 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.
- Isaiah 30:6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the…
- Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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