King James Version
Job 20:14 in the King James Version says “Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.” — study this verse from Job chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.”
Job 20:14 · KJV
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: within: Heb. in the midst of his palate
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Yet his meat”
H3899food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
“in his bowels”
H4578used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uteru
“is turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“it is the gall”
H4846properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
“within”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
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