Job 20:14

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

¹³ though he cherishes it and will not let it go
but keeps it in his mouth,
¹⁴ yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.
¹⁵ He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;
God will force it from his stomach.

Job

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be weak from hunger,
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

2 Samuel 11:2-5

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

2 Samuel 12:10-11

Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife.’

Job 20:16

He will suck the poison of cobras;
a viper’s fangs will kill him.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle
from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:1-8

A Davidic psalm for remembrance.Lord, do not punish me in Your anger
or discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalm 51:8-9

Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Proverbs 1:31

they will eat the fruit of their way
and be glutted with their own schemes.

Proverbs 23:20-21

Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?
Who has red eyes?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you;
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Malachi 2:2

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honor My name,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.