Job 20:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Though evil is sweet in his mouth [And] he hides it under his tongue,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, [though] he may hide it under his tongue;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, [though] hee hide it vnder his tongue;
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Though his wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide deceit under his tongue,
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Though evil be sweet in his mouth, [though] he will hide it under his tongue;
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; |
Though
x518 (0518) Complementאִם'im{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
wickedness
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
be sweet
4985 {4985} Primeמָתַקmathaq{maw-thak'}
A primitive root; to suck, by implication to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
in his mouth,
6310 {6310} Primeפֶּהpeh{peh}
From H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literally or figuratively (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to.
[ though] he hide
3582 {3582} Primeכָּחַדkachad{kaw-khad'}
A primitive root; to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
it under
x8478 (8478) Complementתַּחַתtachath{takh'-ath}
From the same as H8430; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
his tongue;
3956 {3956} Primeלָשׁוֹןlashown{law-shone'}
From H3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water). |
Job 20:12
_ _ be — “taste sweet.” Sin’s fascination is like poison sweet to the taste, but at last deadly to the vital organs (Proverbs 20:17; Job 9:17, Job 9:18).
_ _ hide ... tongue — seek to prolong the enjoyment by keeping the sweet morsel long in the mouth (so Job 20:13). |
Job 20:12
Mouth — To his taste; though it greatly please him for the present. Hide — As an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he keeps and rolls about his mouth, that he may longer enjoy the pleasure of it. |
Job 20:12
Though wickedness be (f) sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
(f) As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction when it comes into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but God later turns it to destruction. |
- wickedness:
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Proverbs 9:17-18 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. ... But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.
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- he hide:
Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
Psalms 109:17-18 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. ... As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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