🌪️WEB · Job 20:17
What does Job 20:17 mean?
"He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter."
— Job 20:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
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