King James Version
Job 20:17 in the King James Version says “He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. the floods: or, streaming brooks” — study this verse from Job chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. the floods: or, streaming brooks”
Job 20:17 · KJV
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. the floods: or, streaming brooks
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. his: Heb. the substance of his exchange
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; oppressed: Heb. crushed
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“He shall not see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“the floods”
H5104a stream (including the sea; expectation the nile, euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
“the brooks”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
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