The Pulpit Commentary on Job 21:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

His breasts are full of milk; rather, his milk-pails, as in the margin. The main wealth of the time being cattle, the man whose milk-pails are always full is the prosperous man. And his bones are moistened with marrow.

Being thus wealthy and prosperous, his body is fat and well nourished.

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