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Read Full Chapter (Job 20) Job 20:16 KJV
"He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him."
Job Chapter 20, Verse 16
Job 20:16 in Context (Verses 13–19 KJV)
13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:*
14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.*
18
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.*
19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;*