The brooks of honey and butter. — He uses language which might lead one to suppose he was familiar with the promise of Canaan, except that, as the phrase is not precisely identical it may perhaps rather show a community of proverbial language, and that the land flowing with milk and honey may have been an expression in use, and not one original with the Pentateuch.
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Job 20:17
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods,e the brooks of honey and butter.