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Job 20:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. "
Job 20:14
Verse in Context
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12 “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16 He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
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Job 20:1
"Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,"
Job 20:2
"“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me."
Job 20:3
"I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me."
Job 20:4
"Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,"
Job 20:5
"that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?"
Job 20:6
"Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,"
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