Job 20:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ though they are loath to let it go and hold it in their mouths,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Though he spare it, and forsake it not; But keep it still within his mouth:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Though he is loath to let it go but keeps it still within his mouth,

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ they like it, won’t let it go; they hold it in their cheeks.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.

Job 20:13 Cross References

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Numbers 11:33

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

Job 20:14

yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.

Job 20:23

To fill their belly to the full, God will send his fierce anger into them and rain it upon them as their food.

Proverbs 19:28

A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.