Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.
New American Standard Bible
And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.
King James Version
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Holman Bible
and opened their mouths as for spring showers.
International Standard Version
They waited for me as one waits for rain, as one opens his mouth to drink in a spring rain shower.
A Conservative Version
And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
American Standard Version
And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Amplified
“They waited for me [and for my words] as for the rain,
And they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Bible in Basic English
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
Darby Translation
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Julia Smith Translation
And they waited for me as the rain, and they opened wide their mouth for the latter rain.
King James 2000
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they waited for me as [for] the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for [the] spring rain.
Modern King James verseion
And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.
NET Bible
They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.
New Heart English Bible
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
The Emphasized Bible
And they waited, as for rain, for me, and, their mouths, they opened wide for the spring-rain;
Webster
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
World English Bible
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
22 After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop, 23 And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain. 24 I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Zechariah 10:1
They asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain in showers He doth give to them. To each -- the herb in the field.
Psalm 72:6
He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.
Hosea 6:3
And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'