Job 20:17
He shall not look with pleasure on streams, on flowing brooks of honey and cream.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16The poison of asps will he have to suck; the viper's tongue will slay him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He caused him to stride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the products of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty stone;
2 Kings 7:2Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean, the man of God, and said, Behold, will the Lord make windows in the heavens, that this thing shall be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.
Psalms 36:8(36:9) These will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and of the stream of thy delights wilt thou give them to drink.
Isaiah 7:15Cream and honey shall he eat, so soon as he knoweth to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be like a lonely tree in the desert, which feeleth not when the good cometh; but abideth in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salty land which cannot be 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 →