Devine Scripture

Job 20:17

Job chapter 20 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Context

v.16He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.

v.17This passage

v.18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 81:16

    He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.

  • 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 in anguish in this flame.

  • Isaiah 7:22

    and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.

  • 2 Samuel 17:29

    and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • Jeremiah 17:6

    For 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, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Isaiah 7:15

    Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.