Job 29:23

Job chapter 29 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wideasfor the latter rain.

King James Version · 1611

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

American Standard Version · 1901

And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wideasfor the latter rain.

v.22After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.

v.23This passage

v.24I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 72:6
He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
Hosea 6:3
And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, even of Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.