Job 20:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

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  • Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He caryed him vp to the hie places of the earth, that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him to sucke hony out of the stone, and oyle out of the hard rocke: 14 Butter of kine, and milke of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the graines of wheat, and the red licour of the grape hast thou drunke.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 When I washed my pathes with butter, & when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thine house, and thou shalt giue them drinke out of the riuer of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the well of life, and in thy light shall we see light.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.
  • Isa 7:22 : 22 And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 When the poore and the needy seeke water, & there is none (their tongue faileth for thirst: I the Lorde will heare them: I the God of Israel will not forsake them)
  • Jer 17:6-8 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land, and not inhabited. 7 Blessed be the man, that trusteth in ye Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit.
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 Then he cried, and saide, Father Abraham, haue mercie on mee, and sende Lazarus that hee may dippe the tip of his finger in water, & coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And hee shewed me a pure riuer of water of life, cleare as crystall, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lambe.
  • 2 Sam 17:29 : 29 And they brought honie, and butter, and sheepe, and cheese of kine for Dauid and for the people that were with him, to eate: for they said, The people is hungry, and wearie, and thirstie in the wildernesse.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
  • Num 14:23 : 23 Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that prouoke me, see it.

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  • Job 20:12-16
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    12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

    13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

    14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

    15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

    16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

  • 18 He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more.

  • Job 20:20-24
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    20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

    21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.

    22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

    23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

    24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

  • 18 He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

    30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

  • Job 40:22-24
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    22 (40:17) Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

    23 (40:18) Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth.

    24 (40:19) Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land, and not inhabited.

  • 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.

  • 22 And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8 He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

    9 So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

  • 20 The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shal feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remebred, & the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.

  • 13 He caryed him vp to the hie places of the earth, that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him to sucke hony out of the stone, and oyle out of the hard rocke:

  • 15 Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.

  • 13 My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

  • 19 Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

  • 16 If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

  • 10 He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

    17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

    18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

    19 Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.

  • 20 Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

  • 17 For the figtree shall not flourish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall faile, and the fieldes shall yeelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20 So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

    21 His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

  • 12 But he shall die in the place, whither they haue ledde him captiue, and shall see this lande no more.

  • 24 Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 12 His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

  • Isa 33:16-17
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    16 He shall dwell on hie: his defence shall be the munitions of rockes: bread shalbe giuen him, and his waters shalbe sure.

    17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his glory: they shall beholde the lande farre off.

  • 7 He shall drinke of the brooke in the way: therefore shall he lift vp his head.

  • 7 The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

  • 33 The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

  • Job 21:24-25
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    24 His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

    25 And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • 17 Hee that loueth pastime, shalbe a poore man: and he that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be riche.