Job 20:17
He does not look on streams, || Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He makes him ride on high places of earth, || And he eats increase of the fields, || And He makes him suck honey from a rock, || And oil out of the flint of a rock;
2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king has, by whose hand he has been supported, answers the man of God and says, “Behold, YHWH is making windows in the heavens—will this thing be?” And he says, “Behold, you are seeing it with your eyes, and you do not eat thereof.”
Psalms 36:8They are filled from the fatness of Your house, || And You cause them to drink the stream of Your delights.
Isaiah 7:15He eats butter and honey, || When He knows to refuse evil, and to fix on good.
Isaiah 36:17until my coming in, and I have taken you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
Jeremiah 17:6And he has been as a naked thing in a desert, || And does not see when good comes, || And has inhabited parched places in a wilderness, || 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 →