Catholic Public Domain Version
"He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him. "
— Job 20:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.”
“He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him. ”
“He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.”
“He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.”
“He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.”
“He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.”
“He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.”
He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.