Job 20:17
Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Psalms 36:8\36:7\How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.
Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
Isaiah 36:17Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
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 →