Job 20:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

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  • Deut 32:24 : 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they 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 for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Acts 28:3-6 : 3 But 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 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live." 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed. 6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

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  • Job 20:11-15
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    83%

    11His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

    13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

    14Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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

  • Job 20:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

    18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • Isa 11:8
    75%

    8The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

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

  • Prov 23:32
    75%

    32In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.

  • Ps 140:3
    74%

    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Deut 32:33
    74%

    33Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

  • Ps 58:4
    74%

    4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

  • Eccl 10:11
    74%

    11If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

  • Job 20:20-26
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    73%

    20"Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

    21There was nothing left that he didn't devour, Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

    23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

    25He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Jer 8:17
    72%

    17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

  • Deut 32:24
    72%

    24[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • Job 18:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

    13The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

    14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • Job 15:30
    71%

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 21:20
    71%

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Isa 59:5
    71%

    5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

  • Ps 10:7
    71%

    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Job 18:9-10
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    9A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

    10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

  • Eccl 10:8
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    8He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • Jas 3:8
    70%

    8But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

  • Ps 64:8
    70%

    8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • Prov 23:8
    69%

    8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.

  • Job 18:16
    69%

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

  • Mark 16:18
    69%

    18they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

    23Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

  • Gen 49:17
    69%

    17Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.

  • Ps 36:3
    69%

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Isa 14:29
    69%

    29Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

  • Amos 5:19
    69%

    19As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

  • Job 16:13
    69%

    13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Hab 2:7
    69%

    7Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • Job 5:21
    69%

    21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

  • Ps 109:18
    69%

    18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, Like oil into his bones.

  • Nah 3:15
    69%

    15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.