6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
He 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; …
And 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.
Binding 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past ! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1. “O that I were in as good a st…
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