Job 20:17
He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He caryed him vp to the hie places of the earth, that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him to sucke hony out of the stone, and oyle out of the hard rocke:
2 Kings 7:2Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lord would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
Psalms 36:8They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thine house, and thou shalt giue them drinke out of the riuer of thy pleasures.
Isaiah 7:15Butter and hony shall he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.
Isaiah 36:17Till I come and bring you to a land like your owne land, euen a land of wheate, and wine, a land of bread and vineyardes,
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in 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 →