Job 20:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:14 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.
bowels: — deep feelings, heartfelt compassion.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Psalms 51:8-9
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. …
Psalms 38:1-8
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. …
Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …

Topics

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Animals Asp Care Carnal Mindedness Conceit Consistency Covetousness

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. 14)

14. turned--Hebrew denotes a total change into a disagreeable contrary (Jr 2:21; compare Re 10:9, 10). gall--in which the poison of the asp was thought to lie. It rather is contained in a sack in the mouth. Scripture uses popular language, where no moral truth is thereby endangered.