Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
Darby Translation
He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
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.
Themes
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are multiplied
Brooks » Illustrative » Of temporal abundance
Oppression » Those that oppress the poor
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Spend, upon their appetite
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
16
He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
17
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13-14
He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
Job 29:6
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
Numbers 14:23
shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
2 Samuel 17:29
honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."
2 Kings 7:2
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
Psalm 36:8-9
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Psalm 81:16
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 7:22
and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.
Isaiah 41:17
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Jeremiah 17:6-8
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
Luke 16:24
And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb