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OET (OET-RV) They’ll suck on cobra poison.
⇔ ≈The viper’s fangs will kill them.
OET-LV [the]_poison of_cobras he_sucks kill_him [the]_tongue of_a_viper.
UHB רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃ ‡
(roʼsh-pətāniym yīnāq tahargēhū ləshōn ʼefˊeh.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT He will suck the poison of asps;
⇔ the tongue of the viper will kill him.
UST A person who does evil deeds will die as a result,
⇔ as certainly as the bite of a poisonous snake kills a person.
BSB He will suck the poison of cobras;
⇔ the fangs of a viper will kill him.
OEB The poison of asps he has sucked,
⇔ And the tongue of the viper shall slay him.
WEB He will suck cobra venom.
⇔ The viper’s tongue will kill him.
NET He sucks the poison of serpents;
⇔ the fangs of a viper kill him.
LSV He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
FBV They suck in snake venom; the bite of the viper will kill them.
T4T What wicked people do is like [MET] swallowing snake venom;
⇔ it will kill them like [MET] the bite of a poisonous snake kills people.
LEB • the poison of horned vipers; the viper’s tongue will kill him.
BBE He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
MOF No MOF JOB book available
JPS He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
ASV He shall suck the poison of asps:
⇔ The viper’s tongue shall slay him.
DRA He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.
YLT Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
DBY He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
RV He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
WBS He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
KJB He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
BB He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him:
(He shall suck the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him:)
GNV He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
(He shall suck the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him. )
CB The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him:
(The serpentes heade shall suck him, and the adders tongue shall slay/kill him:)
WYC He schal souke the heed of snakis; and the tunge of an addre schal sle hym.
(He shall souke the heed of snakis; and the tunge of an addre shall slay/kill him.)
LUT Er wird der Ottern Galle saugen, und die Zunge der Schlange wird ihn töten.
(Er becomes the Ottern Galle saugen, and the Zunge the Schlange becomes him/it kill.)
CLV Caput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.
(Caput aspidum suget, and occidet him lingua viperæ. )
BRN And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.
BrLXX Θυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.
(Thumon de drakontōn thaʸlaseien, aneloi de auton glōssa ofeōs. )
20:14-16 poisonous venom . . . cobras . . . viper: In the end, the wicked are no longer deadly to others (Matt 3:7; Rom 3:13) but only to themselves (Prov 23:29-35).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק
head cobras suck
Zophar is speaking as if a wicked person would literally suck the poison of asps. This could mean: (1) that Zophar is alluding to the images in verses 12 and 13 of a wicked person savoring wickedness as if it were something he held under his tongue or against the roof of his mouth. Zophar would be saying that the delicacy that the wicked person savors or sucks turns out to be poison, meaning something that will kill him. Alternate translation: “In the end, the wickedness that he savors will kill him” (2) that an asp will bite the wicked person and he will absorb its poison as if he had sucked it in. This would be a more general statement. Alternate translation: “Something deadly will destroy him”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה
kill,him tongue viper's
Zophar may be reflecting a belief of his culture that the forked tongue of a snake was sharp and that snakes injected poison into people and animals by piercing them with their tongues. If Zophar understood, as people today now understand, that snakes inject their poison through their fangs after biting their victims, then Zophar would be using the term tongue by association to mean the mouth and thus the fangs. Alternate translation: “the fangs of the viper will kill him” or “a viper will kill him by biting him and injecting him with poison through his fangs”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
פְּתָנִ֥ים & אֶפְעֶֽה
cobras & viper's
See how you translated the word “asps” in in 20:14. A viper is another kind of poisonous snake If these snakes, or snakes in general, would not be familiar to your readers, you could use general terms. Alternate translation: “snakes … the poisonous snake” or “reptiles … the poisonous reptile”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
אֶפְעֶֽה
viper's
Zophar is not referring to a specific viper. He means one that might bite a wicked person. Alternate translation: “a viper”