Job 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Turned into another nature or quality, from sweet to bitter. The gall of asps, i.e. exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison, which from thence is conveyed to their mouths by veins, as Pliny observes; and the poison of asps is most dangerous, and within a few hours kills without remedy.

Job 20:14

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.