Job 20:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 wasted 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: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on 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 to them, O generation of vipers, who 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, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. 4 And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, justice does not allow to live. 5 And he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. 6 However, they expected that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but after they had looked a long time 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 grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers 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 is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

    13 Though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,

    14 Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

    15 He has 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 streams, the brooks of honey and butter.

    18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

  • 8 The nursing child shall play near the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

  • 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 stops 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 anything of what he desired.

    21 None of his food shall be left; therefore no one shall look for his goods.

    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; 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 bronze shall strike him through.

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

    26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

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

  • 24 They shall be wasted 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 weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

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

    14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, 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 he shall go away.

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

  • 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks 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
    2 verses
    71%

    9 The trap 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 who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

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

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

  • 8 The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall 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
    2 verses
    69%

    22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly 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, a viper in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

  • 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • 29 Rejoice not, whole Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent's root will come forth a viper, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

  • 19 As if a man fled 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 surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

  • 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you shall be for plunder to them?

  • 21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: nor shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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

  • 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.