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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 29:6

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 (Deuteronomy 32:13). Olives amidst rocks yield the best oil. Oil in the East is used for food, light, anointing, and medicine.




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