Job’s Former Blessings
Job 29:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
- KJV
- And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- WEB
- They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
- ASV
- And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- LSV
- And they wait for me as [for] rain, || And they have opened wide their mouth || [As] for the spring rain.
- YLT
- And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
- DBY
- And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- DRC
- They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
- GNV
- And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne.
- JPS
- And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- LXXE
- As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְיִֽחֲל֣וּ כַמָּטָ֣ר לִ֑י וּ֝פִיהֶ֗ם פָּעֲר֥וּ לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὥσπερ γῆ διψῶσα προσδεχομένη τὸν ὑετὸν, οὕτως οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν λαλιάν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Hosea 6:3So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- Zechariah 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
- Psalms 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
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