Job 20:16
Strong's Lexicon
He will suck
יִינָ֑ק (yî·nāq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3243: 1) to suckle, nurse, suck 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to suck 1a2) suckling, babe (subst) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to give suck to, nurse 1b2) nursing, nursing woman, nurse (participle)

the poison
רֹאשׁ־ (rōš-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7219: 1) gall, venom, bitter, poisonous

of cobras;
פְּתָנִ֥ים (pə·ṯā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6620: 1) a snake, venomous serpent 1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper

the fangs
לְשׁ֣וֹן (lə·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3956: 1) tongue 1a) tongue (of men) 1a1) tongue (literal) 1a2) tongue (organ of speech) 1b) language 1c) tongue (of animals) 1d) tongue (of fire) 1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)

of a viper
אֶפְעֶֽה׃ (’ep̄·‘eh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 660: 1) a viper, snake

will kill him.
תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ (ta·har·ḡê·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2026: 1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to kill, slay 1a2) to destroy, ruin 1b) (Niphal) to be killed 1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Young's Literal Translation
Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper’s fangs will kill  him. 

New American Standard Bible
"He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him.

King James Bible
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.

New Living Translation
They will suck the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them.

English Standard Version
He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

New American Standard Bible
"He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him.

King James Bible
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him.

International Standard Version
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will slay him.

NET Bible
He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

American Standard Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

English Revised Version
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Young's Literal Translation
Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
















Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Proverbs 23:32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 20:15
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

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.

Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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