Job 20:17
What does Job 20:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 20:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
KJV
King James Version · 1611He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
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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.
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