When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
All Commentaries on Job 29:6 Go To Job 29
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Butter. Many understand "cream. "But butter was used to anoint the body, as well as oil. Non omittendum in eo (butyro) olei vim esse,Barbaros omnes infantesque nostros ita ungi. (Pliny, ix. 41.)
Oil. These hyperbolical expressions denote the utmost fertility, Genesis xlix. 11. (Calmet)
Septuagint have "milk. "On all sides, Job could behold his rich pastures and cattle, (Haydock) so that he might have washed his feet in butter and milk. The rocks also were covered with olive trees; (Menochius) or the stone used for a press made the oil gush forth. (Cajetan) (Sa)
