Job 29:23

English Standard Version 2016

They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

Cross References

Hosea 6:3

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Zechariah 10:1

Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

Job 29:22

After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.

Psalm 81:10

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Psalm 119:131

I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of a king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’