Job 29:22

Christian Standard Bible ®

After a word from me they did not speak again;my speech settled on them like dew.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.

King James Version
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

English Standard Version
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

New Century Version
After I finished speaking, they spoke no more. My words fell very gently on their ears.

New English Translation
After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

Amplified Bible
"After I spoke, they did not speak again, And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].

New American Standard Bible
"After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.

World English Bible
After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.

Legacy Standard Bible
After my words they did not speak again,And my speech dropped on them.

Berean Standard Bible
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Contemporary English Version
and when I finished speaking, nothing needed to be said.

Complete Jewish Bible
After I spoke, they didn't talk back; my words were like drops [of dew] on them.

Darby Translation
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

Easy-to-Read Version
When I finished speaking, they had nothing more to say. My words fell gently on their ears.

George Lamsa Translation
And from my words they departed not, and my speech was pleasing to them.

Good News Translation
they had nothing to add when I had finished. My words sank in like drops of rain;

Lexham English Bible
After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down like dew upon them.

Literal Translation
After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the.

American Standard Version
After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.

Bible in Basic English
After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

King James Version (1611)
After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.

English Revised Version
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei dursten no thing adde to my wordis; and my speche droppide on hem.

Update Bible Version
After my words they did not speak again; And my speech distilled on them.

Webster's Bible Translation
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

New King James Version
After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.

New Living Translation
And after I spoke, they had nothing to add, for my counsel satisfied them.

New Life Bible
After I spoke, they did not speak again. My words stayed with them.

New Revised Standard
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;

Douay-Rheims Bible
To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

Revised Standard Version
After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

Young's Literal Translation
After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸So I thought, “I will die in my own nestand multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹My roots will have access to water,and the dew will rest on my branches all night. ²⁰My whole being will be refreshed within me,and my bow will be renewed in my hand.” ²¹Men listened to me with expectation,waiting silently for my advice. ²²After a word from me they did not speak again;my speech settled on them like dew.²³They waited for me as for the rainand opened their mouths as for spring showers. ²⁴If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;they were thrilled at the light of my countenance. ²⁵I directed their course and presided as chief.I lived as a king among his troops,like one who comforts those who mourn.

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

Genesis 29:1
Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country.

Genesis 29:2
He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

Genesis 29:10
As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep, he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Revelation 19:9
Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These words of God 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.