Job 20:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

Job 20:13 Cross References

Job 20:14

yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:23

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

Proverbs 19:28

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

Numbers 11:33

While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

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.