Job 20:17
(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
2 Kings 7:2Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Psalms 36:8O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.
Isaiah 7:15He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in 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 →