Job 20:14

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹³ Though he desires it and will not let it go,
But holds it in his mouth,
¹⁴ Yet his food in his stomach is changed
To the venom of cobras within him.
¹⁵ “He swallows riches,
But will vomit them up;
God will expel them from his belly.

Job

Deuteronomy 32:24

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

2 Samuel 11:2-5

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

2 Samuel 12:10-11

Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

Job 20:16

“He sucks the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue slays him.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:1-8

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.
O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath,
And chasten me not in Your burning anger.

Psalm 51:8-9

Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Proverbs 1:31

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

Proverbs 23:20-21

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;