Job 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 a disagreeable contrary (Jeremiah 2:21; cf. Revelation 10:9-10).

Gall - in which the poison of the asp was thought to lie. It rather is contained in a sack in the mouth. Scripture uses popular language where no moral truth is thereby endangered.

Job 20:14

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