KJV King James Version
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 29:23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
WEB World English Bible
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
ASV American Standard Version
And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.
Surrounding context — Job 29
20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
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Cross-references
Hosea 6:3Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.Psalm 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth.
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