Parallel Verses

World English Bible

After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.

New American Standard Bible

“After my words they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped on them.

King James Version

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Holman Bible

After a word from me they did not speak again;
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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

my words
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

and my speech
מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

נטף 
Nataph 
Usage: 18

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense

21 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. 22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. 23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

Job 32:15-16

"They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.

Job 33:31-33

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

Song of Songs 4:11

Your 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.

Isaiah 52:15

so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

Ezekiel 20:46

Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

Amos 7:16

Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

Micah 2:6

"Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."

Matthew 22:46

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.

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