King James Version (KJV)
Job 20:16
“He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.”
Verse in context — Job 20
14
[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
15
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
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