Job Chapter 20 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
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BBE Job 20:16

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
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DARBY Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
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KJV Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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WBT Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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WEB Job 20:16

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
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YLT Job 20:16

Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - He shall suck the poison of asps. Probably Zophar does not affix any very distinct meaning to his threats. He is content to utter a series of fierce-sounding but vague menaces, which he knows that Job will regard as launched against himself, and does not care whether they are taken metaphorically or literally. Job will be equally distressed in either ease. The viper's tongue shall slay him. It is really the viper's tooth, and not his tongue, that slays; but Zophar is not, any more than Job (Job 27:18), an accomplished naturalist.

Ellicott's Commentary