Job 20:17
Let him not see the milk of the pastures, 1 Nor the supplies of honey and butter. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16And let him suck the poison of serpents, 1 And let the serpent’s tongue slay him. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He brought them up on the strength of the land; 1 He fed them with the fruits of the fields; 1 They sucked honey out of the rock, 1 And oil out of the solid rock. 1
2 Kings 7:2And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisha, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make floodgates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisha said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Psalms 36:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: 1 Fret not thyself so as to do evil. 1
Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil, or choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is 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 →