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Job 20:16

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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

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  1. Job 20:14

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

  2. Job 20:15

    He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

  3. Job 20:17

    He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

  4. Job 20:18

    That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.