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Job 20

Job 20:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yet his meat
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
in his bowels
me`ah (Hebrew #4578)
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
KJV usage: belly, bowels, X heart, womb.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be soft
is turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
, it is the gall
mrorah (Hebrew #4846)
from 4843; properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
KJV usage: bitter (thing), gall.
Pronounce: mer-o-raw'
Origin: or mrowrah {mer-o-raw'}
of asps
pethen (Hebrew #6620)
an asp (from its contortions)
KJV usage: adder.
Pronounce: peh'-then
Origin: from an unused root meaning to twist
within
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
him.

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Ministry on This Verse

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his meat.
2 Sam. 11:2‑5• 2And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
 3and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
 4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.
 5And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. (2 Sam. 11:2‑5)
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2 Sam. 12:10‑11• 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.
 11Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. (2 Sam. 12:10‑11)
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Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
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Psa. 38:1‑8• 1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
 4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
 6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
 7For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart. (Psa. 38:1‑8)
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Psa. 51:8‑9• 8Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
 9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. (Psa. 51:8‑9)
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Prov. 1:31• 31therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices. (Prov. 1:31)
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Prov. 23:20‑21,29‑35• 20Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
 29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
 30--They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
 31Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
 32at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
 34and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:
 35--"They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again." (Prov. 23:20‑21,29‑35)
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Jer. 2:19• 19Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 2:19)
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Mal. 2:2• 2If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay it to heart. (Mal. 2:2)
the gall.
Job 20:16• 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him. (Job 20:16)
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Deut. 32:24• 24They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust. (Deut. 32:24)
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Rom. 3:13• 13their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips: (Rom. 3:13)
• In a few strokes the speaker draws a dreadful picture of the sinful man, who, gorging himself with sinful pleasures, hidden and cherished beneath his tongue, is like the venomous serpent, preparing the deadly virus which shall bring death to him. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.