diff --git a/bigquery/pom.xml b/bigquery/pom.xml
index ca7386ab769..352676b0206 100644
--- a/bigquery/pom.xml
+++ b/bigquery/pom.xml
@@ -21,9 +21,20 @@
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
-        <artifactId>google-api-services-bigquery</artifactId>
-        <version>v2-rev330-1.22.0</version>
+      <groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-api-services-bigquery</artifactId>
+      <version>v2-rev330-1.22.0</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion> <!-- exclude an old version of Guava -->
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>guava-jdk5</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+      <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+      <version>20.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.oauth-client</groupId>