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Job 20:12-19

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

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12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; 13. [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14. [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. 15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16. He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him. 17. He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 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]. 19. Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 20:12-19 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 20:12

Theological / Devotional

Be sweet. This verse begins a new stanza. Wickedness has its pleasure, but it is shallow and transitory.

By SdaBc