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Job 29:22
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After a word from me they did not speak again;my speech settled on them like dew.
After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
After I finished speaking, they spoke no more. My words fell very gently on their ears.
After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.
"After I spoke, they did not speak again, And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].
"After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.
After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.
After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.
After my words they did not speak again,And my speech dropped on them.
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
After I spoke, they didn't talk back; my words were like drops [of dew] on them.
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
When I finished speaking, they had nothing more to say. My words fell gently on their ears.
And from my words they departed not, and my speech was pleasing to them.
they had nothing to add when I had finished. My words sank in like drops of rain;
After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down like dew upon them.
After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them.
Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the.
After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them,
After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.
At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Thei dursten no thing adde to my wordis; and my speche droppide on hem.
After my words they did not speak again; And my speech distilled on them.
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.
And after I spoke, they had nothing to add, for my counsel satisfied them.
After I spoke, they did not speak again. My words stayed with them.
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew.
After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;
To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
"After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
After my: Job 32:15, Job 32:16, Job 33:31-33, Isaiah 52:15, Matthew 22:46
speech: Deuteronomy 32:2, Song of Solomon 4:11, Ezekiel 20:46, Amos 7:16, Micah 2:6, *marg.
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:21 - feed
Cross-References
As Jacob continued on his way to the east,
he looked out in a field and saw a well where shepherds took their sheep for water. Three flocks of sheep were lying around the well, which was covered with a large rock.
When Jacob saw her and his uncle's sheep, he rolled the rock away and watered the sheep.
As soon as Laban heard the news, he ran out to meet Jacob. He hugged and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him everything that had happened.
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he answered, "If you will let me marry Rachel, I'll work seven years for you."
Then the angel told me, "Put this in writing. God will bless everyone who is invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb." The angel also said, "These things that God has said are true."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Ecclesiastes 2:12;
and my speech dropped upon them; his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, Amos 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, Song of Solomon 4:11; or rather like the rain, as in
Deuteronomy 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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 Deuteronomy 32:2 :
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 Proverbs 5:3 :
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb,
And her mouth is smoother than oil,
So in Song of Solomon 4:11 :
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb;
Honey and milk are under thy tongue.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 29:22. My speech dropped upon them. — It descended as refreshing dew; they were encouraged, comforted, and strengthened by it.
