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Job 20:17

World English Bible

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

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Job 20:17 in other translations

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

Job 20:17 · American Standard Version

Job 20:17 in context

  1. 15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.
    God will cast them out of his belly.
  2. 16He will suck cobra venom.
    The viper’s tongue will kill him.
  3. 17He will not look at the rivers,
    the flowing streams of honey and butter.
  4. 18He 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.
  5. 19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
    He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.