Job 20:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

Job 20:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:13-14
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; …
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 tormented in this flame.
Job 29:6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 Samuel 17:29
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

Topics

Agriculture Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Butter Care Carnal Mindedness Churning Conceit Consistency

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-22)

The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. floods--literally, “stream of floods,” plentiful streams flowing with milk, &c. (Job 29:6; Ex 3:17). Honey and butter are more fluid in the East than with us and are poured out from jars. These “rivers” or water brooks are in the sultry East emblems of prosperity.