KJV King James Version
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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Job 29:6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
WEB World English Bible
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
ASV American Standard Version
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
Surrounding context — Job 29
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;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
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Psalm 81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.Deuteronomy 32:13-14He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;Deuteronomy 33:24And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.Genesis 49:11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
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