JOB 20:16 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Θυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.
(Thumon de drakontōn thaʸlaseien, aneloi de auton glōssa ofeōs. )

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

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.

WEBBE He will suck cobra venom.
⇔ The viper’s tongue will kill him.

WMBB (Same as above)

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.

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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.

Drby 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.

Wbstr He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

KJB-1769 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

KJB-1611 He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
(He shall suck the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.)

Bshps 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:)

Gnva 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. )

Cvdl The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him:
(The serpentes head shall suck him, and the adders tongue shall slay/kill him:)

Wycl He schal souke the heed of snakis; and the tunge of an addre schal sle hym.
(He shall souke the head of snakis; and the tunge of an addre shall slay/kill him.)

Luth Er wird der Ottern Galle saugen, und die Zunge der Schlange wird ihn töten.
(He becomes the/of_the Ottern Galle saugen, and the Zunge the/of_the Schlange becomes him/it kill.)

ClVg Caput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.
(Caput aspidum suget, and occidet him lingua viperæ. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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”

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