Verse 6
6. When I washed, etc. Rather, when my steps were bathed in cream.
Butter Milk, probably curdled; according to others, cream. See note Job 20:17. So plentiful is butter in the East, that it is considered at Kerak, says Burckhardt, an unpardonable meanness to sell butter, or to exchange it for any necessary or convenience of life.… “Seller of butter” is the most insulting epithet that can be applied to a man of Kerak. Syria, p. 385.
The rock In ancient times oil-presses, with their floors, gutters, troughs, and cisterns, were all hewn out of solid rock, and thus it literally poured out rivers of oil. THOMSON, Land and Book, 1:71. Umbreit understands the expression figuratively; instead of water, their usual outflow, the rocks poured forth oil. The great lawgiver, when about to die, said of Asher, “He shall dip his foot in oil,” (Deuteronomy 33:24,) and the rabbis say, “In Asher oil flows like a river.”
Me By or near me.
Blessings were so near and abundant that they flowed along his path like a stream.
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