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Job 20:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. "

Job 20:16

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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.

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

18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

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