Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

New American Standard Bible

“He does not look at the streams,
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He will not enjoy the streams,
the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

International Standard Version

He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

A Conservative Version

He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

American Standard Version

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Amplified


“He does not look at the rivers,
The flowing streams of honey and butter [to enjoy his wealth].

Bible in Basic English

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Julia Smith Translation

He shall not look upon the streams, the rivers, the torrents of honey and curdled milk

King James 2000

He shall not see the rivers, the brooks flowing with honey and butter.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{He will not enjoy the streams}, [the] torrents of honey and curds.

Modern King James verseion

He shall not see the rivers, the flowings of the brooks of honey and butter,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

The Emphasized Bible

Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.

Webster

He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.

World English Bible

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

Youngs Literal Translation

He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He shall not see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

the rivers
פּלגּה 
P@laggah 
Usage: 1

the floods
נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

the brooks
נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

of honey
דּבשׁ 
D@bash 
Usage: 54

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

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

16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him. 17 He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter. 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:13-14

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;

Job 29:6

When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

Numbers 14:23

shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.

2 Samuel 17:29

and honey, and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine to David, and to the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.

2 Kings 7:2

And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Psalm 36:8-9

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psalm 81:16

And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

Isaiah 7:22

and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

Isaiah 41:17

The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Jeremiah 17:6-8

And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Luke 16:24

And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

Revelation 22:1

And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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