Job 20:17
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
Psalms 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Isaiah 7:15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 36:17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
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 →