Job Chapter 20 verse 14 Holy Bible
Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
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His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
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His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
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Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
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His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps `is' in his heart.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Yet his meat in his bowels is turned. Still, a time comes when the self-complacency of the wicked man is shaken. He experiences a failure of health or spirits. Then, suddenly, it is as if the meat that he has swallowed had been turned to poison in his bowels, as if the gall of asps were within him. Compare what Bishop Butler says of the sudden waking up of a man's conscience ('Analogy,' pt. 1. ch. 2. p. 52). The ancients seem to have known that the poison of serpents was a strong acid, and therefore supposed that it was secreted by the gallbladder (see Pliny, 'Hist. Nat.,' 11:37).
