Job 20:17
They will not live to enjoy the streams, the rivers of milk and honey.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16They suck in snake venom; the bite of the viper will kill them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13The Lord gave you the high country to rule, and fed you with the crops of the field to eat. He sustained you with honey from the rock and olive oil from the flinty crag,
2 Kings 7:2The officer who was the king's assistant said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord opened windows in heaven what you say couldn't happen!” Elisha replied, “You'll see it with your own eyes, but you won't get to eat any of it.”
Psalms 36:8They gain strength from the wonderful food you provide in your house; you give them drink from your refreshing river.
Isaiah 7:15He will eat curds and honey until the time he knows to refuse evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17I will come and take you to a land that's like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6They will be like a shrub alone in the desert that isn't even aware when good things happen. It just goes on living in the dry desert, in a salt flat that's uninhabited.
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 →