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Job 20:17

Judgment

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.

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;

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BSB
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
KJV
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
WEB
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
ASV
He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
DARBY
He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
BLB
He shall not look on streams, [or] rivers [with] torrents of honey and cream.
ÅB
Han skal ikke få se bekker, elver av honning og elver av melk.
OTB
Han vil ikke se på bekkene,
elvene som flyter med honning og fløte.
B1930
Han skal ikke få se bekker, elver av honning og elver av melk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 32:13–14

    He 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;

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  • Job 29:6

    When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

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  • Luke 16:24

    And 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.

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  • 2 Kings 7:2

    Then 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.

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  • Isaiah 7:22

    And 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.

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  • Psalms 36:8–9

    They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

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  • Isaiah 7:15

    Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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  • 2 Samuel 17:29

    And 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.

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