Job 20:14 meaning and explanation

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Job 20:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Zophar is the third of Job's friends to speak, and here he answers Job's complaint with a sharp claim: the wicked may savor their wrongdoing, but it turns against them. In verse 14 he pictures evil as food swallowed and enjoyed, which sours in the stomach into the venom of cobras.

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