World English Bible
Job 20:16
“He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.”
Verse in context — Job 20
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yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
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He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
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He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
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That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
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