When my steps were washed with cream and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, employing extreme imagery of abundance to describe Job's former prosperity, suggesting that even the physical world overflowed with provision for Job. The washing of steps with cream represents extravagant luxury, the transformation of ordinary pathways into symbols of abundance. The rock pouring streams of oil suggests that even hard, apparently unproductive resources yielded precious bounty for Job. The verse uses extreme language to establish how thoroughly Job's past state manifested divine blessing.

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