Job 20:16

Modern English Version

He will suck the poison of cobras; the viper’s tongue will slay him.

Cross References

Job 6:4

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

Proverbs 11:17

The merciful man does good for his own soul, but a cruel man troubles his own flesh.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from which comes the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who shall not profit them.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who has warned you to escape from the wrath to come?

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are an open grave; with their tongues they have used deceit”; “the poison of vipers is under their lips”;

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons and the deadly venom of cobras.