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Job 20

Job 20:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Though wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
be sweet
mathaq (Hebrew #4985)
to suck, by implication, to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet
KJV usage: be (made, X take) sweet.
Pronounce: maw-thak'
Origin: a primitive root
i in his mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
, though he hide
kachad (Hebrew #3582)
to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy
KJV usage: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
Pronounce: kaw-khad'
Origin: a primitive root
it under his tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
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Job 15:16• 16How much less the abominable and corrupt,--man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! (Job 15:16)

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wickedness.
Job 15:16• 16How much less the abominable and corrupt,--man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! (Job 15:16)
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Gen. 3:6• 6And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. (Gen. 3:6)
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Prov. 9:17‑18• 17Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (Prov. 9:17‑18)
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Prov. 20:17• 17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. (Prov. 20:17)
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Eccl. 11:9• 9Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. (Eccl. 11:9)
he hide.
Psa. 10:7• 7His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. (Psa. 10:7)
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Psa. 109:17‑18• 17And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.
 18And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones; (Psa. 109:17‑18)
• Poisoned with his own venom (vers. 12-16)....Nor is the reason for this dreadful conclusion of the life of the wicked far to seek. He has but himself to blame, and is reaping what he sowed. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,