Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
KJV
(Non videat rivulos fluminis, torrentes mellis et butyri.)
Vulgate
μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων μηδὲ νομὰς μέλιτος καὶ βουτύρου.
LXX
He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
ASV
אַל יֵ֥רֶא בִ/פְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְ/חֶמְאָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
דְבָֽשׁ
dbsh
noun · 53×
חֶמְאָ֗ה
chm'h
noun · 10×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
נְהַר
nhr
noun · 119×
נַ֣חַל
nchl
noun · 140×
פְלַגּ֑וֹת
plgvt
noun · 1×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 32:13 — 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;
- Jer 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.
- Job 29:6 — When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- Job 29:6 — When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- Luke 16:24 — And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
- Ps 36:8 — They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.