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The Book of Job, Chapter 20, Verse 13

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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
King James Version
[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
American Standard Version
Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
New English Translation
if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,
World English Bible
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
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[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
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Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.