Job 29:23

Job’s Former Blessings · Job 29:1–25
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Translations

Modern
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
Traditional
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Literal
And they waited for me as for the rain, and their mouth they opened wide, as for the spring rain.
Latin
Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.

Original

Hebrew
English
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Notes

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Glossary

Book of Job Spring Rains, Latter Rain

Topics

Rain: The Lack of Causes the Earth to Open