Job 20:16
Modern Translations
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.

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

New American Standard Bible
“He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper’s tongue kills him.

NASB 1995
"He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him.

NASB 1977
“He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper’s tongue slays him.

Amplified Bible
“He sucks the poison of vipers [which ill-gotten wealth contains]; The viper’s tongue slays him.

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

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

Contemporary English Version
They will die from the fangs of poisonous snakes

Good News Translation
What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The godless person sucks the poison of snakes. A viper's fang kills 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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

New King James Version
He will suck the poison of cobras; The viper’s tongue will slay him.

King James 2000 Bible
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

New Heart English Bible
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

World English Bible
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

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

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

A Faithful Version
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Darby Bible Translation
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version
He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The venom of the asp he will pour out and the tongue of an asp will kill him

Lamsa Bible
He shall suck the poison of asps; the tongue of an adder shall slay him.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He shall suck the poison of asps; The viper's tongue shall slay him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
















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