Job 20:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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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.
Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Acts 28:3-6 : 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 4 And when the barbarians saw the [venomous] creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live. 5 Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm. 6 But they expected that he would have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but when they were long in expectation and beheld nothing amiss came to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
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:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Job 20:11-15
5 verses
83%
11His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:17-18
2 verses
80%
17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Isa 11:8
75%
8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
Rom 3:13-14
2 verses
75%
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Prov 23:32
75%
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Ps 140:3
74%
3They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {H5542}
Deut 32:33
74%
33Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
Ps 58:4
74%
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
Eccl 10:11
74%
11If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
Job 20:20-26
7 verses
73%
20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
23When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.
25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Jer 8:17
72%
17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Deut 32:24
72%
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.
Job 18:12-14
3 verses
72%
12His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
13The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.
14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Job 15:30
71%
30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.
Job 21:20
71%
20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Isa 59:5
71%
5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Ps 10:7
71%
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Job 18:9-10
2 verses
71%
9A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.
10A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
Eccl 10:8
71%
8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Jas 3:8
70%
8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.
Ps 64:8
70%
8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
Prov 23:8
69%
8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Job 18:16
69%
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
Mark 16:18
69%
18they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Job 27:22-23
2 verses
69%
22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
23Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
Gen 49:17
69%
17Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward.
Ps 36:3
69%
3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Isa 14:29
69%
29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Amos 5:19
69%
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Job 16:13
69%
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Hab 2:7
69%
7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?
Job 5:21
69%
21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Ps 109:18
69%
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
Nah 3:15
69%
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.