Catholic Public Domain Version
"(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.) "
— Job 20:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.”
“He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. ”
“He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.”
“He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.”
“Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.”
“Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.”
“He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.”
His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)
He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.
And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.