Job 20:14

14. His meat His food, that is, the wickedness he had eaten.

Turned Changed into poison. Canon Cook cites from an Arab poet, “crime may be enjoyed, but not digested.”

The gall of asps It was the opinion of the ancients that “the gall constituted the venom of serpents.” PLINY, Natural History, 11:75. The asp ( pethen) is supposed by some to have been the boeten of the Arab, which is thus described by Forskal: “Spotted all over with black and white; a foot long, and about twice as thick as one’s thumb; oviparous; the bite is instantly fatal, and causes the body to swell.”