Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 29:6

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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 ( :- ). Olives amidst rocks yield the best oil. Oil in the East is used for food, light, anointing, and medicine. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"

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