Job 20:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Job 20:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Psalms 109:17-18
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. …
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Topics

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Care Carnal Mindedness Conceit Consistency Covetousness Deceit Deception

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-22)

The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. be--“taste sweet.” Sin’s fascination is like poison sweet to the taste, but at last deadly to the vital organs (Pr 20:17; Job 9:17, 18). hide ... tongue--seek to prolong the enjoyment by keeping the sweet morsel long in the mouth (so Job 20:13).