After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
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After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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Passages linked to Job 29:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
- Song of Solomon 4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Isaiah 52:15 so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.
- Ezekiel 20:46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.
- Matthew 22:46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
- Job 32:15-16 “They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say. Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
- Job 33:31-33 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak. If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
- Amos 7:16 Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
- Micah 2:6 “Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy. “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, was pleasant unto them.
That is, was pleasant unto them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again;…
Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Ver. 22. After my words they spake not again] They replied not, but rested in my words, as if I had been some Doctor Resolutus or rather Irrefragabilis. The Vulgate rendereth it, Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, They dared not add anything to my words, as holding them current and sufficient.
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And my speech dropped upon them] viz. As dew drops, Deu 32:2, or, as some, prophecy, saith R. Levi here. Confer Mic 2:6 Amo 7:17. Surely as the dew refresheth and cherisheth the dry and fading fields; so do fit words the hearts of the hearers. And as the dew allayeth great heats, and moisteneth the earth, that it may fructify; so it is here. Ills regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet (Virg.). And lastly, as the dew lies in a little compass; so in fewness of words there is oft a fulness of matter, &c.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain After my words they spake not again; either to…
After my words they spake not again; either to confute them as false, or to add to them as lame and imperfect.
Dropped upon them, to wit, as the rain, as the next verse explains it, which when it comes down gently and droppingly upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it; not so when it comes in great and violent showers.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain After my words they spake not again,.... Did not…
After my words they spake not again,.... Did not or would not make any reply to them; they did not attempt to change and alter them, to add unto them, or take from them, or in any wise to correct them, and much less to contradict them, and treat them with contempt; or "differed not", as Mr. Broughton renders it; differed not from them, but agreed to them; and differed not among themselves, but united in what Job said, as being full to the purpose, after which nothing more could be said; see Ecc 2:12;
and my speech dropped upon them; his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, Amo 7:16; his doctrine dropped from his lips like the honeycomb, and was sweet, grateful, and delightful to his hearers, as the church's lips, Sol 4:11; or rather like the rain, as in Deu 32:2, when it falls and drops gently and easily, and so penetrates and soaks into the earth, and abides and does good: in like manner, when good and sound doctrine drops upon the hearers, so as to enter into their hearts, and work effectually in them, it does them good, and they rejoice at it, and are far from having anything to say against it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Dropped - As the rain, which when it comes…
Dropped - As the rain, which when it comes down gently upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. My speech dropped upon them.] It descended…
Verse 22. My speech dropped upon them.] It descended as refreshing dew; they were encouraged, comforted, and strengthened by it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain After my words they spake not again - The…
After my words they spake not again - The highest proof which could be given of deference. So full of respect were they that they did not dare to dispute him; so sagacious and wise was his counsel that they were satisfied with it, and did not presume to suggest any other.
And my speech dropped upon them - That is, like the dew or the gentle rain. So in Deu 32:2 :
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall distil as the dew,
As the small rain upon the tender herb,
And as the showers upon the grass.
So Homer speaks of the eloquence of Nestor,
Τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή.
Tou kai apo glōssēs melitos glukiōn rēn audē.
“Words sweet as honey from his lips distill’d.”
Pope
So Milton, speaking of the eloquence of Belial, says,
- Though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Paradise Lost, B. ii.
The comparison in the Scriptures of words of wisdom or persuasion, is sometimes derived from honey, that drops or gently falls from the comb. Thus, in Pro 5:3 :
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb,
And her mouth is smoother than oil,
So in Son 4:11 :
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb;
Honey and milk are under thy tongue.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain not again--did not contradict me.
not again--did not contradict me.
dropped--affected their minds, as the genial rain does the soil on which it gently drops (Amo 7:16; Deu 32:2; Sol 4:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Speech dropped — Rain is frequently used as…
22. Speech dropped — Rain is frequently used as a metaphor for pleasing and gentle discourse. “My doctrine shall drop as the rain.” (Deu_32:2.) Thus Milton, “Though his tongue dropt manna.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. dropped upon them] i. e. like a refreshing,…
22. dropped upon them] i. e. like a refreshing, quickening rain, when they were wearied and perplexed in counsel.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain After my words they spake not again. When Job…
After my words they spake not again. When Job had spoken, the debate commonly came to an end. It was felt that all had been said, and that further remark would be superfluous. And my speech dropped upon them. (comp. Deu_32:2, "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew The silent, penetrating influence of wise counsel is glanced at.
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