1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Job 20:17 | (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.) | 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.) |