Job 29:6
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
In Context
5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Cross References
Genesis 49:11He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in the blood of grapes.
Deuteronomy 33:24And of Asher he said, Asher shall be blessed with sons; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil.
Psalms 81:16And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:2-7
Former Prosperity of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Losers may have leave to speak, and… Read the whole commentary →