Job 20:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:11-15
    5 verses
    83%

    11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

    12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

    13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

    14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

    15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Job 20:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

    18 That 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].

  • 8 And 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
    2 verses
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    13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

    14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

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

  • 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

  • 33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

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

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

  • Job 20:20-26
    7 verses
    73%

    20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

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

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

    23 ¶ [When] 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.

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

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

    26 All 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Job 18:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

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

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

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

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

  • 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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

  • Job 18:9-10
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    71%

    9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

    10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

  • 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  • 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • 8 The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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

  • 18 ‹They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.›

  • Job 27:22-23
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    69%

    22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

    23 [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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

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

  • 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.

  • 19 As 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.

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

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

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

  • 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.