Job 29:23

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 29:22

After my words they did not speak again, and my speech settled on them like dew.

Job 29:24

If I mocked at them, they did not believe it, and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

Psalm 119:131

I opened my mouth and panted, for I long for Your commandments.

Psalm 72:6

May he descend like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 81:10

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

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king’s countenance is life, and his favor is like a cloud of a spring rain.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain; like the spring rains He will water the earth.

Zechariah 10:1

Ask for rain from the Lord during the season of the latter spring rains. And the Lord will make the storm winds; and He will give them showers of rain; all will have vegetation in the field.