11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and [a]it shall lie down with him in the dust.

12 When wickedness was [b]sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue,

13 And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:11 Meaning, that he shall carry nothing away with him but his sin.
  2. Job 20:12 As poison that is sweet in the mouth, bringeth destruction when it cometh into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but afterward God turneth it to destruction.

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