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Job 20:17

NETBible	He will not look on the streams,¹ the rivers, which are the torrents² of honey and butter.³
NIV © biblegateway Job 20:17	He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
NASB © biblegateway Job 20:17	"He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds.
NLT © biblegateway Job 20:17	He will never again enjoy abundant streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.
MSG © biblegateway Job 20:17	No quiet picnics for them beside gentle streams with fresh-baked bread and cheese, and tall, cool drinks.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 20:17	Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 20:17	They will not look on the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 20:17	He will not see the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and cream.
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KJV	He shall not see <07200> (8799) the rivers <06390>_, the floods <05104>_, the brooks <05158> of honey <01706> and butter <02529>_. {the floods...: or, streaming brooks}
NASB © biblegateway Job 20:17	"He does not look <07200> at the streams <06390> , The rivers <05104> flowing <05158> with honey <01706> and curds <02529> .
LXXM	mh <3165> ADV idoi <3708> V-AAO-3S amelxin {N-ASF} nomadwn {N-GPF} mhde <3366> CONJ nomav <3542> N-APF melitov <3192> N-GSN kai <2532> CONJ bouturou {N-GSN}
NET [draft] ITL	He will not <0408> look <07200> on the streams <05158> , the rivers <05104> , which are the torrents <06390> of honey <01706> and butter <02529> .
HEBREW	hamxw <02529> sbd <01706> ylxn <05158> yrhn <05104> twglpb <06390> ary <07200> la (20:17) <0408>

NETBible

He will not look on the streams,¹ the rivers, which are the torrents² of honey and butter.³

NET Notes

¹tn The word פְּלַגּוֹת (pÿlaggot) simply means “streams” or “channels.” Because the word is used elsewhere for “streams of oil” (cf. 29:6), and that makes a good parallelism here, some supply “oil” (cf. NAB, NLT). But the second colon of the verse is probably in apposition to the first. The verb “see” followed by the preposition bet, “to look on; to look over,” means “to enjoy as a possession,” an activity of the victor.

²tn The construct nouns here have caused a certain amount of revision. It says “rivers of, torrents of.” The first has been emended by Klostermann to יִצְהָר (yitshar, “oil”) and connected to the first colon. Older editors argued for a נָהָר (nahar) that meant “oil” but that was not convincing. On the other hand, there is support for having more than one construct together serving as apposition (see GKC 422 §130.e). If the word “streams” in the last colon is a construct, that would mean three of them; but that one need not be construct. The reading would be “He will not see the streams, [that is] the rivers [which are] the torrents of honey and butter.” It is unusual, but workable.

³sn This word is often translated “curds.” It is curdled milk, possibly a type of butter.