Job 20:17
He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock,
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.
Psalms 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou will make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →