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He shall suck cobra venom. The viper`s tongue shall kill him.
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Sweet Sin, Bitter End
Zophar uses the powerful image of sucking snake poison. Commentators explain this illustrates how the wicked person's ill-gotten gains and secret sins, which seem sweet and nourishing at first, inevitably turn into a deadly poison that destroys them from within. What was once a delight becomes the source of their ruin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He shall suck the poison of asps - What he swallowed as pleasant nourishment will become the most deadly poison; or the consequence…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He shall suck the poison of asps
Or "the head of asps" {u}; for their poison lies in their heads, particularly in …
The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hidin…
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13th Century
Catholic
Since the author had said (in verse 11) that the bones of the evil person must be filled with the sins of their youth, so that they are punished af…
