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What does Job 20:14 mean?

"yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him."

— Job 20:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

11

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

12

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

13

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

14

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

15

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

16

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

17

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

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