Job 20:16

The Scriptures 1998

He sucks the poison of cobras; the tongue of the poisonous snake slays him.

Cross References

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me.

Proverbs 11:17

A kind man is rewarding his being, But he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder –

Isaiah 30:6

The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,

Matthew 3:7

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”

Deuteronomy 32:24

“Wasted by scarcity of food, And consumed by heat and bitter destruction, And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With the poison of serpents of the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33

“Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the fierce venom of cobras.