Job 20:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַ֭חְמוֹ בְּמֵעָ֣יו נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ מְרוֹרַ֖ת פְּתָנִ֣ים בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

laḥmô bĕ- mēʿāyw nehpāk mĕrôrat pĕtānîm bĕ- qirbô

Grammar Details

*laḥmô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his bread/food
*bĕ-*: preposition - in
*mēʿāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his intestines/bowels
*nehpāk*: niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it is turned/changed
*mĕrôrat*: noun, feminine singular construct - bitterness/poison
*pĕtānîm*: noun, masculine plural - cobras/asps
*qirbô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his inward part/midst

Word Meanings

*laḥmô*: his bread/his food/his nourishment
*mēʿāyw*: his intestines/his bowels/his stomach
*nehpāk*: is turned/is changed/is transformed
*mĕrôrat*: bitterness/poison/venom
*pĕtānîm*: cobras/asps/vipers
*qirbô*: his inward part/his midst/within him

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:24 : 24 [ They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned unto her house. 5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}
Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 51:8-9 : 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.
Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly: 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Mal 2:2 : 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

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