KJV King James Version
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
WEB World English Bible
He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
ASV American Standard Version
He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
Surrounding context — Job 20
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: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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Deuteronomy 32:13-14He 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;Luke 16:24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.Job 29:6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;Jeremiah 17:6-8For 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.Revelation 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.Numbers 14:23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.Psalm 36:8-9They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.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.Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.Psalm 81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.Isaiah 41:17[When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, [I] the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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