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


In Context

14 His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

15 He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

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.

19 For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 20:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:17(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.