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Job 29:6
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My steps were awash in cream, and the rocks gushed olive oil for me.
When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
It was as if my path were covered with cream and the rocks poured out olive oil for me.
when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
When my steps [through rich pastures] were washed with butter and cream [from my livestock], And the rock poured out for me streams of oil [from my olive groves].
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
whanne Y waischide my feet in botere, and the stoon schedde out to me the stremes of oile;
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
My herds gave enough milk to bathe my feet, and from my olive harvest flowed rivers of oil.
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.
my steps were awash in butter, and the rocks poured out for me streams of olive oil.
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! …
Life was so good that I washed my feet in cream and had plenty of the finest oils.
When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
My path was washed with milk, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me.
when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When I washed my pathes with butter, & when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
My cows and goats gave plenty of milk, and my olive trees grew in the rockiest soil.
When my steps were bathed in milk, and, the rock, poured out beside me, rivulets of oil:
When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle:
when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
when my feet were bathed in curdsand the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
when my paths were washed in sour milk, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.
when I washed my steps with curds, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me;
When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.
whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle:
When my steps were bathed in cream, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
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When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When my steps were bathed in butter,And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I washed: Job 20:17, Genesis 49:11, Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 33:24, Psalms 81:16
me out: Heb. with me
Reciprocal: Psalms 58:10 - wash Joel 3:18 - the mountains Micah 6:7 - rivers
Cross-References
And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When I washed my steps with butter,.... Not the steps of his house or palace; for to have done this, or his servants by his orders, as it would have been a very great impropriety, so a piece of great prodigality, which Job could never have been guilty of; but either his footsteps, the prints of his feet; and the sense be, that his cattle produced such a vast quantity of milk, that when his servants brought it from the fields to the dairy, their milk pails ran over in such abundance, that Job could not step out of his house, and take a walk in his fields, but he stepped into puddles of milk, of which butter was made: this is an exaggerated phrase, like that by which the land of Canaan is described as "flowing with milk and honey"; or rather this is to be understood of the washing of his feet, which are the instruments of stepping or walking. It was usual in those times, in the eastern countries, to wash their feet upon travelling, or at festivals; but then this was commonly done with water, not with butter, see
Genesis 18:4; and the meaning can only be, that Job had such abundance of milk, or butter made of it, that he could, if he would, have washed his feet in it; indeed, they had used to anoint the feet with ointment; but whether cream or butter was any ingredient in it, and so the part is put for the whole, is not certain, see Luke 7:38
Job 12:3; besides, that would have been more properly expressed by anointing than washing; it seems to be an hyperbole, an expression like that of Zophar, in Job 20:17; signifying the vast abundance of the increase and produce of Job's kine; who is said to wash his feet in milk or butter, as Asher is said to dip his feet in oil, because of the great plenty of it, Deuteronomy 33:24; the spiritual meditation upon the words may be this; the feet of the best of saints need washing, there being many failings and infirmities in their walk and conversation; in which they gather much pollution and faith daily; the proper wash for this is the blood of Christ, of which the layer in the tabernacle and temple was a type, at which the priests washed their hands and feet; but the word of God, called the sincere milk of the word, is the instrument or means of washing, or of directing souls to the fountain opened to wash in; so that with respect to that, the feet of saints, as the eyes of Christ, may be said to be washed with milk:
and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; another hyperbolical expression, like that in Deuteronomy 32:13, where honey is said to be sucked out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; as honey may be got out of a rock, because bees may make their nests and hives there, where it is laid up by them; so oil, in like manner, may be had from the flinty rock, olive trees growing on hills, mountains, and rocks, which yield oil in great abundance; near Jerusalem was a mount called Olivet, from thence: the land of Edom, or Idumea, where Job lived, abounded with cragged mountains and rocks; and there might be in Job's estate such on which olive trees grew in great plenty, as to produce vast quantities of oil: it is a very fanciful thought of Bolducius, that this rock was no other than a stone vessel, in which was oil, somewhat like the alabaster box in Matthew 26:7; and which was plentifully poured on Job, when he was anointed high priest; and another learned man u, though he rejects the notion of its being a vessel for sacred use, yet is willing to allow it was an oil vessel for common use: as to the spiritual sense, it may be observed, that a rock in Scripture often signifies a divine Person, 1 Corinthians 10:4; it is an emblem of Christ, as oil also is of the Spirit of God and his grace, Matthew 25:3; and which flows from Christ, who is full thereof, and that in such great abundance, as to be expressed by rivers; see John 1:14.
u Fortunat. Schacch. Elaeochrysm. Myroth. l. 2. c. 79. p. 715.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When I washed my steps with butter - On the word rendered “butter,” see the notes at Isaiah 7:15. It properly means curdled milk. Umbreit renders it, Sahne; cream. Noyes, milk, and so Wemyss. The Septuagint, “When my ways flowed with butter” - βουτύρῳ bouturō. So Coverdale, “When my ways ran over with butter.” Herder, “And where I went a stream of milk flowed on.” The sense may be, that cream or butter was so plenty that he was able to make use of it for the most common purposes - even for that of washing his feet. That butter was sometimes used for the purpose of anointing the feet - probably for comfort and health - as oil was for the head, is mentioned by Oriental travelers. Hassilquist (Travels in Palestine, p. 58), speaking of the ceremonies of the priests at Magnesia on holy Thursday, says, “The priest washed and dried the feet, and afterward besmeared them with butter, which it was alleged was made from the first milk of a young cow.” Bruce says that the king of Abyssinia daily anointed his head with butter. Burder in Rosenmuller’s alte u. neue Morgenland, in loc. It is possible that this use of butter was as ancient as the time of Job, and that he here alludes to it, but it seems more probable that the image is designed to denote superfluity or abundance; and that where he trod, streams of milk or cream flowed - so abundant was it round him. The word rendered “steps” הליכם hâlı̂ykam) does not properly denote “the feet” but “the tread, the going, the stepping.” This sense corresponds with that of the other member of the parallelism.
And the rock poured me out rivers of oil - Margin, “with me.” The idea is, that the very rock near which he stood, seemed to pour forth oil. Instead of water gushing out, such seemed to be the abundance with which he was blessed, that the very rock poured out a running stream of oil. Oil was of great value among the Orientals. It was used as an article of food, for light, for anointing the body, and as a valuable medicine. To say, then, that one had abundance of oil, was the same as to say that he had ample means of comfort and of luxury. Perhaps by the word “rock” here, there is an allusion to file places where olives grew. It is said that those which produced the best oil grew upon rocky mountains. There may be, also, an allusion to this in Deuteronomy 32:13 : “He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.” Prof. Lee, and some others, however, understand here by the rock, the press where oil was extracted from olives, and which it is supposed was sometimes made of stone.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 29:6. Washed my steps with butter — Job 20:17.
