Job 20:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

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  • Deut 32:24 : 24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house. 5 And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
  • Job 20:16 : 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion. 2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. 3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. 5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. 7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy. 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
  • Ps 51:8-9 : 8 Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad. 9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
  • Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat: 21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? 30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. 34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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  • Job 20:15-18
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    15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

    17 Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

    18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

  • Job 20:11-13
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    11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

    12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

    13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

  • Job 20:20-26
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    20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

    21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

    22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

    23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

    24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

    25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

  • 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Job 33:19-21
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    19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Job 18:12-14
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    12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

    13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

  • 18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

    14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • 8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

  • 22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

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    33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

    34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • 22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

  • 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

  • 22 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

  • 20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

  • 25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

  • 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • 16 He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.

  • 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

  • 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • 20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Lam 3:15-16
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    15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

  • 7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • 25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • 27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

  • 20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • 7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

  • 15 And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

  • 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

  • 24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.