Job 20:14

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his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:24 : 24 They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said,“Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he went to bed with her.(Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home. 5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying,“I’m pregnant.”
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 11 This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight!
  • Job 20:16 : 16 He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long. 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury! 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. 3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin. 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear. 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick. 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 51:8-9 : 8 Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice! 9 Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
  • Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat, 21 because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32 Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. 34 And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. 35 You will say,“They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses– indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

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    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

    16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

    17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • Job 20:11-13
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    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

    12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

    13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

  • Job 20:20-26
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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

  • Job 16:13
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    13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Job 33:19-21
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    19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

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    18He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • Prov 23:8
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    8you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

  • Job 14:22
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    22His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

  • Deut 32:33-34
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    70%

    33Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.

    34“Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

  • Prov 23:32
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    32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

  • Job 41:22
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    22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

  • Prov 18:20
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    20From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied, with the product of his lips he will be satisfied.

  • Job 21:25
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    25And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

  • Lam 3:13
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    13ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

  • Job 40:16
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    16Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

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    19ז(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • Lam 3:15-16
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    15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

    16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.

  • Job 15:27
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    27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

  • Job 21:20
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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Job 6:7
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    7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

  • 2 Chr 21:15
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    15And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out.”

  • Ps 140:3
    68%

    3Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)

  • Lam 3:5
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    5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.