Job 29:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 81:16 : 16 “I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.”
  • Job 20:17 : 17 He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
  • Gen 49:11 : 11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
  • Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks, 14 butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
  • Deut 33:24 : 24 Blessing on Asher Of Asher he said: Asher is blessed with children, may he be favored by his brothers and may he dip his foot in olive oil.

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