Job 29:23 · KJV
“And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide {as} for the latter rain.”
— Job 29:23
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
{If} I laughed on them, they believed {it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29 — Context
Unto me {men} gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide {as} for the latter rain.
24{If} I laughed on them, they believed {it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one {that} comforteth the mourners.
Cross References
Hosea 6:3
Then shall we know, {if} we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter {and} former rain unto the earth.
Psalms 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers {that} water the earth.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; {so} the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. {bright...: or, lightnings}