Job 20:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Deut 32:24 : 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Acts 28:3-6 : 3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. 5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. 6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come 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:

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    11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which 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 forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

    14Yet his meat 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 shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Job 20:17-18
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    17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

    18That 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.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • Prov 23:32
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    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Deut 32:33
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    33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

  • Job 20:20-26
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    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

    21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

    23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

    25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

    26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • Job 18:12-14
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    12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

    13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

    14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 21:20
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    20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Job 18:9-10
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    8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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  • Job 27:22-23
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    22For God shall cast upon 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.

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    17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

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    13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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    7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

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    21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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