“ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; ”
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. T...
When I washed my steps (d) with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (d) By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had no opportunity to be such a...
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....
rivers . divisions. Hence the little channels made in garden irrigation. See note on Psalms 1:3 , and Proverbs 21:1 .
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Job 29:6 Washed my steps with butter - See the note on Job 20:17 .
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Butter - rather, cream-literally, thick milk. Wherever I turned my steps the richest milk and oil flowed in to me...
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
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 gre...
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Ver. 6. When I washed my steps with butter ] When I had of everything God's plenty, as they call it. Butter enough to...
When the Almighty was yet with me On my side; whereas now he is against me, and hath forsaken me. When my children were about me Or, servants , for the word נערי, nagnarai , signifies both. Whe...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...
Former Prosperity of Job. B. C. 1520. 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, ...
i.e. When I abounded in all sorts of blessings; which is oft signified by this or the like phrases, as Genesis 49:11 Deuteronomy 33:24 Job 20:17 Psalms 81:16 ; when I had such numerous herds...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...
Job Describes his Former Prosperity
Deuteronomy 32:13 ; Deuteronomy 33:24 ; Genesis 49:11 ; Job 20:17 ; Psalms 81:16