Job 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He shall suck the poison of asps [which ill-gotten wealth contains]; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

American Standard Version (1901)

He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.

Common English Bible

They suck cobra’s poison; a viper’s tongue kills them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He shall suck the head of asps: and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Job 20:16 Cross References

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Proverbs 11:17

Those who are kind reward themselves, but the cruel do themselves harm.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

Deuteronomy 32:24

wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33

their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.