12 When wickedness was [a]sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue,

13 And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Asps was in the midst of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:12 As poison that is sweet in the mouth, bringeth destruction when it cometh into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but afterward God turneth it to destruction.

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