Job 20:17

World English Bible (2000)

He shall not look at 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. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
  • Isa 7:22 : 22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, 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 comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, 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 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 He showed me a river of water of life, clear 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 who 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 Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
  • Num 14:23 : 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

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    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

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

  • Job 20:20-24
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    20"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

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  • Job 24:18
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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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    22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey 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. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

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    20The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

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  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

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    19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

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    17He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.