Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:
New American Standard Bible
The viper’s tongue slays him.
King James Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Holman Bible
a viper’s fangs
International Standard Version
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will slay him.
A Conservative Version
He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
American Standard Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
Amplified
“He sucks the poison of vipers [which ill-gotten wealth contains];
The viper’s tongue slays him.
Bible in Basic English
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Darby Translation
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
Julia Smith Translation
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall kill him.
King James 2000
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He will suck [the] poison of horned vipers; [the] viper's tongue will kill him.
Modern King James verseion
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
NET Bible
He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
New Heart English Bible
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
The Emphasized Bible
The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;
Webster
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
World English Bible
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
Themes
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are multiplied
Animals » Lions » Vipers, poisonous serpents
or adder Asp » Described as » Venomous
Oppression » Those that oppress the poor
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Spend, upon their appetite
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
15 The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him: 17 so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.
Isaiah 30:6
Your beasts have born burdens upon their backs toward the South, through the way that is full of peril and trouble, because of the lion and lioness; of the Cockatrice and shooting dragon. Yea the Mules bare your substance, and the Camels brought your treasure, upon their crooked backs, unto a people that cannot help you.
Matthew 3:7
When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come?
Acts 28:3-6
And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, And put them into the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and leapt on his hand.
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."