Job 20:17

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

The wicked is not allowed to have the enjoyment of the overflowing abundance of goods which he has accumulated.

Floods - literally, streams of floods; plentiful streams flowing with milk, etc. (Job 29:6; Exodus 3:17). Honey and butter are more fluid in the East than with us, and are poured out from jars. These "rivers" or water-brooks are in the sultry East emblems of prosperity.