Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

New American Standard Bible

Yet his food in his stomach is changed
To the venom of cobras within him.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.

International Standard Version

his food will turn rancid in his stomach it will become a cobra's poison inside him.

A Conservative Version

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.

American Standard Version

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

Amplified


Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;
It is the venom of vipers within him.

Darby Translation

His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

Julia Smith Translation

His bread in his bowels was turned, the gall of asps in his midst

King James 2000

Yet his food in his body is soured, it is the gall of asps within him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

in his bowels his food is turned, [the] venom of horned vipers [is] {within him}.

Modern King James verseion

yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

NET Bible

his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

New Heart English Bible

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

The Emphasized Bible

His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!

Webster

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

World English Bible

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

Youngs Literal Translation

His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
in his bowels
מעה 
me`ah 
Usage: 32

it is the gall
מרורה מררה 
M@rorah 
Usage: 4

of asps
פּתן 
Pethen 
Usage: 6

קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Asp

Context Readings

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

13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; 14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

2 Samuel 11:2-5

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 12:10-11

So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

Job 20:16

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psalm 38:1-8

O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

Psalm 51:8-9

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

Proverbs 1:31

So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

Proverbs 23:20-21

Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Jeremiah 2:19

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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