Job 20:14

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet his meat - His food. In his bowels is turned - That is, it is as if he had taken food which was exceedingly pleasant, and had retained it...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

meat . bread; "bread" put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species) App-6, for all kinds of food.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. Turned - changed into poison. The Hebrew denotes a total change into...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph o...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world c...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, b...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but f...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned ,.... Or "his bread" r, to which sin is compared, being what the sinner lives in, and lives upon; what he str...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. Ver. 14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned ] Sour sauc...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth Though it greatly please him while he is committing it; though he hide it under his tongue As an epicure...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Misery of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 10...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 gal...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that J...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but...
The Biblical Illustrator

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth. The woe of the wicked I. The disposition of a wicked man in regard to sin. 1. His complacency in it...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his fo...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

yet his meat in his bowels is turned, the food of wickedness which he finally swallows, it is the gall of asps within him, the venom of serpents in...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 11:2-5 ; 2 Samuel 12:10 ; 2 Samuel 12:11 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Job 20:16 ; Malachi 2:2 ; Proverbs 1:31 ; Proverbs 2...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Turned — From sweet to bitter. Gall of asps — Exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison; and the...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 20:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 20:14