job 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

job 29:6 When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

6. butter--rather, "cream," literally, "thick milk." Wherever I turned my steps, the richest milk and oil flowed in to me abundantly. Image from pastoral life.
When I washed my steps--Literal washing of the feet in milk is not meant, as the second clause shows; Margin, "with me," that is, "near" my path, wherever I walked (De 32:13). Olives amidst rocks yield the best oil. Oil in the East is used for food, light, anointing, and medicine.

job 29:6 When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

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