King James Version

Job 20:17

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

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אַלalnotאַלparticle, negative — “not”H408not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothingnay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.יֵ֥רֶאyereseeרָאָהverb, qal, jussive, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “see”, a wish or indirect commandH7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)advise self, appear, approve, behold, [idiom] certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), m…בִפְלַגּ֑וֹתviflagotin divisionפְּלַגָּהpreposition, noun, common, feminine, plural, absolute — “in division”, the ordinary formH6390a runlet, i.e. gullydivision, river.נַהֲרֵ֥יnaharefloodנָהָרnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “flood”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5104a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperityflood, river.נַ֝חֲלֵ֗יnachalebrookנַחַלnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “brook”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)brook, flood, river, stream, valley.דְּבַ֣שׁdevashhoneyדְּבַשׁnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “honey”, the ordinary formH1706honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syruphoney(-comb).וְחֶמְאָֽהvechemahand butterחֶמְאָהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “and butter”, the ordinary formH2529curdled milk or cheesebutter.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.

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American Standard Version (1901)

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Young’s Literal Translation

He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

World English Bible

He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων, μηδὲ νομὰς μέλιτος καὶ βουτύρου.