Job 20:17

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He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

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  • Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks, 14 butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies. 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 “I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.”
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 He will eat sour milk and honey, which will help him know how to reject evil and choose what is right.
  • Isa 7:22 : 22 From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the LORD, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.
  • Jer 17:6-8 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live. 7 My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me. 8 They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 So he called out,‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • 2 Sam 17:29 : 29 honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet,“Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said,“Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”
  • Num 14:23 : 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

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  • Job 20:12-16
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    12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

    13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

    16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

  • Job 20:18
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    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • Job 20:20-24
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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

    24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

  • Job 24:18
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    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 40:22-24
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    22The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

    23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

    24Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Job 21:20
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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Isa 7:22
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    22From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • Deut 32:13
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    13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • Isa 7:15
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    15He will eat sour milk and honey, which will help him know how to reject evil and choose what is right.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

  • Job 36:19
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    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

  • Prov 25:16
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    16You have found honey–eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

  • Job 7:10
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    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Job 27:20
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    20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

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    12For he will die in the country where they took him as a captive. He will never see this land again.”

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    24The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

  • Job 18:12
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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

  • Isa 33:16-17
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    16This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.

    17You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

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    7From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Job 21:33
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    33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

  • Job 21:24-25
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    24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

    25And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

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    21His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

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    17The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.