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Job 20:12

โ€œThough wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;โ€

Verse in context โ€” Job 20

10

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

11

His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

13

[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

14

[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

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