King James Version
Job 20:16 in the King James Version says “He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.” — study this verse from Job chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.”
Job 20:16 · KJV
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.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. the floods: or, streaming brooks
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. his: Heb. the substance of his exchange
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the poison”
H7219a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
“tongue”
H3956the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,
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