Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Holman Bible
my speech settled on them like dew.
International Standard Version
After I spoke, they had nothing to say, when what I said hit them.
A Conservative Version
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them.
American Standard Version
After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
Amplified
“After I spoke, they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].
Bible in Basic English
After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
Darby Translation
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
Julia Smith Translation
After my words they will not repeat, and my speech will drop upon them.
King James 2000
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down [like dew] upon them.
Modern King James verseion
After my words they did not go on; and my speech dropped on them.
NET Bible
After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.
New Heart English Bible
After my words they did not speak again. My speech fell on them.
The Emphasized Bible
After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;
Webster
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
World English Bible
After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.
Youngs Literal Translation
After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
Interlinear
Shanah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
21 Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel. 22 If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them. 23 They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine drop, as doth the rain; and my speech flow, as doth the dew - as the mizzling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass.
Job 32:15-16
For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.
Job 33:31-33
Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken.
Song of Songs 4:11
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; yea, milk and honey is under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of frankincense.
Isaiah 52:15
Even so shall the multitude of the Gentiles look unto him, and the kings shall shut their mouths before him. For they that have not been told of him, shall see him, and they that heard nothing of him, shall behold him.
Ezekiel 20:46
"Thou son of man, set thy face toward the south, and speak to the south wind,
Amos 7:16
And therefore, bear thou now the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, 'Prophesy not against Israel, and speak nothing against the house of Isaac.'
Micah 2:6
"Tush, hold your tongue," say they. "It shall not fall on this people, we shall not come so to confusion,"
Matthew 22:46
And none of them could answer him again one word. Neither durst any from that day forth, ask him any more questions.