Job 20:16

Job chapter 20 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

v.16This passage

v.17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 3:13

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

  • Acts 28:3

    But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

  • 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 humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

  • Deuteronomy 32:24

    They shall bewasted 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.