Job 20:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
  • Acts 28:3-6 : 3 But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. 4 And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living. 5 But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage. 6 But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.
  • 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:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:11-15
    5 verses
    83%

    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

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

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

    14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

    15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

  • Job 20:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

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

    18He 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.

  • Isa 11:8
    75%

    8And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13Their 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:

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • Prov 23:32
    75%

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

  • Ps 140:3
    74%

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

  • Deut 32:33
    74%

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

  • Ps 58:4
    74%

    4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

  • Eccl 10:11
    74%

    11If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

  • Job 20:20-26
    7 verses
    73%

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

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

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

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

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

    25He 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.

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

  • Jer 8:17
    72%

    17See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

  • Deut 32:24
    72%

    24They 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.

  • Job 18:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

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

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

  • Job 15:30
    71%

    30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Job 21:20
    71%

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

  • Isa 59:5
    71%

    5They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

  • Ps 10:7
    71%

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

  • Job 18:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Eccl 10:8
    71%

    8He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

  • Jas 3:8
    70%

    8But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

  • Ps 64:8
    70%

    8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • Prov 23:8
    69%

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

  • Job 18:16
    69%

    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Mark 16:18
    69%

    18They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

    23Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

  • Gen 49:17
    69%

    17May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

  • Ps 36:3
    69%

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

  • Isa 14:29
    69%

    29Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

  • Amos 5:19
    69%

    19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Job 16:13
    69%

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

  • Hab 2:7
    69%

    7Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

  • Job 5:21
    69%

    21He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

  • Ps 109:18
    69%

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

  • Nah 3:15
    69%

    15There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.