Job 29:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 29:22

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

Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.

Psalm 119:131

With open mouth I pant, because I long for your commandments.

Psalm 72:6

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

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.

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.”

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like 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, who gives showers of rain to you, the vegetation in the field to everyone.