Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. New Living Translation They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey. English Standard Version He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds. Berean Standard Bible He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. King James Bible He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. New King James Version He will not see the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and cream. New American Standard Bible “He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds. NASB 1995 “He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds. NASB 1977 “He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds. Legacy Standard Bible He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds. Amplified Bible “He does not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter [to enjoy his wealth]. Christian Standard Bible He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and curds. Holman Christian Standard Bible He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. American Standard Version He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He will not see the tributaries of rivers, and of torrents of honey and of butter Brenton Septuagint Translation Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter. Contemporary English Version and never enjoy rivers flowing with milk and honey. Douay-Rheims Bible (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) English Revised Version He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. GOD'S WORD® Translation He won't be able to drink from the streams or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk. Good News Translation They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey. International Standard Version He won't look at the rivers— the torrents of honey and curd. JPS Tanakh 1917 He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and curd. Literal Standard Version He does not look on streams, | Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. Majority Standard Bible He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. New American Bible He shall see no streams of oil, no torrents of honey or milk. NET Bible He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter. New Revised Standard Version They will not look on the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds. New Heart English Bible He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. Webster's Bible Translation He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk. World English Bible He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. Young's Literal Translation He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. Additional Translations ... Context Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked…16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him. 17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. 18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.… Cross References Genesis 18:8 Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate. Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag, Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine. Job 29:6 when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! Psalm 36:8 They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. Treasury of Scripture He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. shall not see Numbers 14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 2 Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. Jeremiah 17:6-8 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited… the rivers Psalm 36:8,9 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures… Isaiah 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. floods. 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; … 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. Psalm 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. Jump to Previous Brooks Butter Cream Curd Curds Enjoy Floods Flowing Honey Milk Oil River Rivers Rivulets StreamsJump to Next Brooks Butter Cream Curd Curds Enjoy Floods Flowing Honey Milk Oil River Rivers Rivulets StreamsJob 20 1. Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked(17) The brooks of honey and butter.--He uses language which might lead one to suppose he was familiar with the promise of Canaan, except that, as the phrase is not precisely identical it may perhaps rather show a community of proverbial language, and that the land flowing with milk and honey may have been an expression in use, and not one original with the Pentateuch.Verse 17. - He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks. The wicked man shall suffer, not only positive pains, but what casuists call the peens damni, or "penalty of loss" - deprivation, in other words, of blessings which he would naturally have enjoyed but for his wickedness. Zophar here threatens him with the Joss of those paradisiacal delights which the Orientals associated with water in all its forms, whether as פּלגות, or "rills derived from larger streams," or as כהרי, "rivers," or as כחלי, "brooks" or "torrents," now strong and impetuous, now reduced to a mere thread These are said poetically to flow with honey and butter, not, of course, in any literal sense, such as Ovid may have meant, when, in describing the golden age, he said - "Flumina jam lactis, jam fiumina nectaris ibant;" Hebrew He will notאַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not enjoy יֵ֥רֶא (yê·re) Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see the streams, בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת (ḇip̄·lag·gō·wṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 6390: A stream, division the rivers נַהֲרֵ֥י (na·hă·rê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity flowing with נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י (na·ḥă·lê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft honey דְּבַ֣שׁ (də·ḇaš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1706: Honey, syrup and cream. וְחֶמְאָֽה׃ (wə·ḥem·’āh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2529: Curdled milk, cheese Links Job 20:17 NIVJob 20:17 NLT Job 20:17 ESV Job 20:17 NASB Job 20:17 KJV Job 20:17 BibleApps.com Job 20:17 Biblia Paralela Job 20:17 Chinese Bible Job 20:17 French Bible Job 20:17 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 20:17 He shall not look at the rivers (Jb) |
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