Job 20:17
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 20
“He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.”Job 20:17
What Does Job 20:17 Mean?
Job 20:17 is found in the book of Job, chapter 20, verse 17 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 16 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (16)
These passages are connected to Job 20:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 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.”Job 29:6“When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;”Jeremiah 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.”Deuteronomy 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;”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.”Genesis 4:16“And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”Numbers 14:23“Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:”Deuteronomy 32:14“Butter 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.”2 Samuel 17:29“And 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 Kings 7:2“Then 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.”Psalms 81:16“He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.”Isaiah 7:15“Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.”Isaiah 7:22“And 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.”Isaiah 36:17“Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.”Isaiah 41:17“When 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.”Revelation 22:1“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
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