Verse 16
Job 20:16
World English Bible
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He shall suck cobra venom.
The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
רֹאשׁ פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗/הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה
English Translation
The chief of the seers will be delivered; he will be a tongue of a fowl.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
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“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,
even by reason of my haste that is in me.
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I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
The spirit of my understanding answers me.
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Don’t you know this from old time,
since man was placed on earth,
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that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
the joy of the godless but for a moment?
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Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
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yet he shall perish forever like his own dung.
Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found.
Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of...
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The eye which saw him shall see him no more,
neither shall his place any more see him.
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His children shall seek the favor of the poor.
His hands shall give back his wealth.
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His bones are full of his youth,
but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
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“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue,
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though he spare it, and will not let it go,
but keep it still within his mouth;
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yet his food in his bowels is turned.
It is cobra venom within him.
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He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again.
God (Elohim) will cast them out of h...
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He shall suck cobra venom.
The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
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He shall not look at the rivers,
the flowing streams of honey and butter.
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That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down.
According to the substanc...
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For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not bu...
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“Because he knew no quietness within him,
he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
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There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
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In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him.
The hand of everyone who is in mise...
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When he is about to fill his belly, God (Elohim) will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
It wi...
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He shall flee from the iron weapon.
The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
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He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.
Ter...
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All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
An unfanned fire shall devour him.
It shall consume that...
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The heavens shall reveal his iniquity.
The earth shall rise up against him.
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The increase of his house shall depart.
They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
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This is the portion of a wicked man from God (Elohim),
the heritage appointed to him by God (Elohim)...
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