Job 20:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
  • Isa 7:22 : 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.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
  • Jer 17:6-8 : 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. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  • Luke 16:24 : 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.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • 2 Sam 17:29 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
  • Num 14:23 : 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

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    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

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    14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

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    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.

  • Job 20:20-24
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    20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

    21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

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    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

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    22The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.

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    6For 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.

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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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    22and 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.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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    15Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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    13My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:

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