Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
King James Version
In Context
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
2 Kings 7:2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Psalms 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know 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 corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, 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 →