World English Bible
Job 20:17
“He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.”
Verse in context — Job 20
15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
16
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
17
He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18
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.
19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
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