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Job 20:17
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Job 20:17 · World English Bible
Job 20:17 in other translations
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
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In context
14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16 He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17 He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
20 “Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
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