Job 20:17
Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;
18In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the land, Caused him to eat the increase of the fields,—And gave him to suck honey out of the cliff, And oil out of the rock of flint:
2 Kings 7:2Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned responded to the man of God, and said, Even if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could this thing, come to pass? And he said—Lo! thou, art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat!
Psalms 36:8They abundantly relish the fatness of thy house,—And out of the full stream of thine own pleasures, thou givest them to drink.
Isaiah 7:15Curds and honey, shall he eat, by the time that he knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good;
Isaiah 36:17Until I come and take you, into A land like your own land,—A land of corn and new wine, A land of bread and vineyards:—
Jeremiah 17:6Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive when good cometh, But shall inhabit Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot be dwelt in.
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 →