Job 20:16

New English Translation

He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

Cross References

Job 6:4

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

Proverbs 11:17

A kind person benefits himself, but a cruel person brings himself trouble.

Proverbs 23:32

Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

Matthew 3:7

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

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.