Job 20:17
(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He stood him upon an exalted land, so that he might eat the fruits of the fields, so that he might eat honey from the rock, and oil from the hardest stone,
2 Kings 7:2And one of the leaders, upon whose hand the king leaned, responding to the man of God, said, “Even if the Lord will open the floodgates of heaven, how can what you say possibly be?” And he said, “You will see it with your own eyes, and you will not eat from it.”
Psalms 36:8Cease from wrath and leave behind rage. Do not choose to imitate the malicious.
Isaiah 7:15He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good.
Isaiah 36:17until I arrive and take you away to a land which is like your own: a land of grain and of wine, a land of bread and of vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable.
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 →