Job 29:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

Common English Bible

²³ they waited for me as for rain, opened their mouth as for spring rain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.

Job 29:23 Cross References

Job 29:22

After my words they spake not again; And my speech dropped upon them.

Job 29:24

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Psalm 119:131

I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.

Psalm 72:6

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth.

Psalm 81:10

I am the LORD thy God, Which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

Jeremiah 5:24

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Hosea 6:3

And let us know, let us follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Zechariah 10:1

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, even of the LORD that maketh lightnings; and he shall give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.