After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.
Parallel translations
- WEB After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
- KJV After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
- BSB After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
- NASB “After my words they did not speak again, And my speech dropped on them.
- NLT And after I spoke, they had nothing to add, for my counsel satisfied them.
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Quick answer
After Job spoke, no one added a word; his speech fell gently and refreshingly on his hearers.
Overview
Job describes the weight and welcome of his words, which settled on his listeners like refreshing rain and ended all further discussion. His counsel was both authoritative and nourishing. This memory of being heard and valued contrasts with his friends' present dismissal of him, deepening his sense of isolation in suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Deut 32:2My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
- Song 4:11Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Isa 52:15so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him: for they will see that which had not been told them; and they will understand that which they had not heard.
- Matt 22:46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
- Ezek 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
- Amos 7:16Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
- Job 32:15–16“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.
- Mic 2:6“Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy. “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
- Job 33:31–33Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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