Job 20:17

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death. ¹⁷ Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk. ¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

Milk and Honey

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Deuteronomy 32:13-14

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

Job 29:6

When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

Numbers 14:23

They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

2 Samuel 17:29

And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

Psalm 36:8-9

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 81:16

I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

Isaiah 7:22

And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

Isaiah 41:17

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

Jeremiah 17:6-8

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Luke 16:24

And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

Revelation 22:1

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,