Teks -- Job 20:12 (NET)

20:12 “If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

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Wesley: Job 20:12 - Mouth

To his taste; though it greatly please him for the present.

Wesley: Job 20:12 - 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.

JFB: Job 20:12 - be

"taste sweet." Sin's fascination is like poison sweet to the taste, but at last deadly to the vital organs (Pro 20:17; Job 9:17-18).

JFB: Job 20:12 - hide . . . tongue

Seek to prolong the enjoyment by keeping the sweet morsel long in the mouth (so Job 20:13).

Clarke: Job 20:12 - Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth - This seems to refer to the secret sins mentioned above

Clarke: Job 20:12 - Hide it under his tongue

Hide it under his tongue - This and the four following verses contain an allegory; and the reference is to a man who, instead of taking wholesome food, takes what is poisonous, and is so delighted with it because it is sweet, that he rolls it under his tongue, and will scarcely let it down into his stomach, he is so delighted with the taste; "he spares it, and forsakes it not, but keeps it still within his mouth,"Job 20:13. "But when he swallows it, it is turned to the gall of asps within him,"Job 20:14, which shall corrode and torture his bowels.

TSK: Job 20:12 - wickedness // he hide

wickedness : Job 15:16; Gen 3:6; Pro 9:17, Pro 9:18, Pro 20:17; Ecc 11:9

he hide : Psa 10:7, Psa 109:17, Psa 109:18

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Poole: Job 20:12 - In his mouth // Though he hide it under his tongue

In his mouth i.e. to his taste, though it greatly please him for the present.

Though he hide it under his tongue as an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he is loth to swallow, and therefore keeps and rolls it about his mouth that he may longer enjoy the pleasure of it: though he be highly pleased with his lusts, and cleave to them in hearty love, and resolve to hold them fast, and improve them to the greatest delight and advantage.

Haydock: Job 20:12 - Evil

Evil of any king, and particularly (Haydock) injustice, which at first seems sweet, but will prove in the end a mortal poison. (Calmet) ---

The unjust will be forced to restore his ill-gotten goods, or suffer eternally for the neglect, ver. 14, 18. (Haydock) ---

Habitual sins are also overcome with most difficulty, ver. 11. (Menochius)

Gill: Job 20:12 - Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth // though he hide it under his tongue

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,.... Which may respect some particular sin, and by the context it seems to be the sin of covetousness, or of getting riches in an unlawful way, which is very sweet and pleasing to wicked men, while they are in such pursuits that succeed; and so Mr. Broughton renders it by "wrong"; though it may be applied to sin in general, which is "wickedness", or an evil ^q, being contrary to the pure and holy nature, will, and law of God; and it is evil in its effects on men, it having deprived them of the image and glory of God, and exposed them to his wrath, to the curses of his law, and to eternal deaths. Now this is "sweet" to an unregenerate man, who minds and savours the things of the flesh, whose taste is not changed, but is as it was from his birth, and who calls sweet bitter, and bitter sweet; such a man has the same delight in sin as a man has in his food, drinks up iniquity like water, and commits sin with greediness; for it is natural to him, he is conceived, born, and brought up in it; besides, some sins are what are more particularly called constitution sins, which some are peculiarly addicted to, and in which they take a peculiar delight and pleasure; these are like the right hand or right eye, and they cannot be persuaded, at any rate, to part with them:

though he hide it under his tongue; not for the sake of concealing it, nor by denying, dissembling, or excusing it, but for the sake of enjoying more pleasure in it; as a gluttonous man, when he has got a sweet morsel in his mouth, do not let it go down his throat immediately, but rolls it under his tongue, that he may have all the pleasure of it he can; so a wicked man devises sin in his heart, keeps it on his mind, revolves it in his thoughts, and his meditation on it is sweet; and he is so far from hiding it from others, that he openly declares it, freely tells of it, and takes pleasure in so doing: "fools make a mock at sin"; it is their diversion and recreation.