Job 20:17
(Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- (Non videat rivulos fluminis, torrentes mellis et butyri.)
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων μηδὲ νομὰς μέλιτος καὶ βουτύρου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַל יֵ֥רֶא בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Butter. The impious may have a short-lived pleasure, but it will not give perfect satisfaction. The poets use similar expressions. (Calmet)
Mella fluant illi, ferat et rubus asper amomum. (Virgil)
Flumina jam lactis, jam flumina nectaris ibant. (Met. i.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.