Job 20:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps [which ill-gotten wealth contains]; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They suck cobra’s poison; a viper’s tongue kills them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.

Job 20:16 Cross References

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Proverbs 11:17

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.