Job 20:13
New Revised Standard Version
though they are loath to let it go, and hold it in their mouths,

Contemporary English Version
and swallow it slowly.

New American Bible
Though he retains it and will not let it go but keeps it still within his mouth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

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He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

spare it

Matthew 5:29,30 And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell. . . .

Mark 9:43-49 And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: . . .

Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

within his mouth.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. 13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,…
Cross References
Numbers 11:18
And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh to eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat:

Numbers 11:33
As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Job 20:14
His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

Job 20:23
May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

Proverbs 19:28
An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Job 20:12
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