Job 20:17
He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
In Context
16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;
2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, 'Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — shall this thing be?' and he saith, 'Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'
Psalms 36:8They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.
Isaiah 36:17till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
Jeremiah 17:6And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, 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 →