Job 20:17
He shall never see the flowing streams, And the rivers of honey and milk.
Noyes Bible
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 poison of asps; The tongue of the viper shall destroy him.
Cross References
Psalms 36:8They are satisfied with the abundance of thy house, And thou causest them to drink of the full stream of thy pleasures.
Isaiah 7:15Milk and honey shall he eat, Until he learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good;
Isaiah 36:17until I come, and take you to a land like your own land; a land of corn, and of new wine, a land of bread and of vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6He shall be like a poor wanderer in the desert, Who seeth not when good cometh, But dwelleth in the parched places of the desert, In a salt land, and 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 →