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Job 20

Job 20:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He shall not see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the rivers
plaggah (Hebrew #6390)
a runlet, i.e. gully
KJV usage: division, river.
Pronounce: pel-ag-gaw'
Origin: from 6385
, the πfloods
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
, the brooks
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
of honey
dbash (Hebrew #1706)
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
KJV usage: honey((-comb)).
Pronounce: deb-ash'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be gummy
and butter
chem'ah (Hebrew #2529)
from the same root as 2346; curdled milk or cheese
KJV usage: butter.
Pronounce: khem-aw'
Origin: or (shortened) chemah {khay-maw'}
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or, streaming brooks.

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Ministry on This Verse

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shall not see.
Num. 14:23• 23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: (Num. 14:23)
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2 Kings 7:2• 2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. (2 Kings 7:2)
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Jer. 17:6‑8• 6For 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.
 7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer. 17:6‑8)
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Luke 16:24• 24And 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. (Luke 16:24)
the rivers.
Psa. 36:8‑9• 8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
 9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. (Psa. 36:8‑9)
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Isa. 41:17• 17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. (Isa. 41:17)
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Jer. 17:6• 6For 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. (Jer. 17:6)
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Rev. 22:1• 1And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Rev. 22:1)
floods.
or, streaming brooks.
of honey.
Deut. 32:13‑14• 13He 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;
 14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. (Deut. 32:13‑14)
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2 Sam. 17:29• 29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. (2 Sam. 17:29)
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Psa. 81:16• 16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. (Psa. 81:16)
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Isa. 7:15,22• 15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
 22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. (Isa. 7:15,22)
• Past prosperity unavailing (vers. 17-20).....Zophar next glances at the former prosperity of the wicked, when he quaffed the draft of pleasure as from an overflowing river of honey and cream. What was grasped from others, must now be given up, and his riches can bring him no joy. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.