“ After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. ”
After my words they spake not again - The highest proof which could be given of deference. So full of respect were they that they did not dare to dispute him; so sagacious and wise was his counse...
After my words they spake not again; and my speech (o) dropped upon them. (o) That is, was pleasant to them.
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. My speech dropped upon them - It descended as refreshing dew; they were encouraged, comforted, and strengthened by it.
My speech dropped upon them— My speech dropped upon them like the dew. Houb.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. Not again - did not contradict me. Dropped - effected their minds, as the genial rain does the soil on which it gentl...
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...
(18) В¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. (19) My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. (20) My glory was fresh in...
After my words they spake not again ,.... Did not or would not make any reply to them; they did not attempt to change and alter them, to add unto them, or take from them, or in any wise to correct t...
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. Ver. 22. After my words they spake not again ] They replied not, but rested in my words, as if I had been some Doctor Resolut...
Unto me men gave ear When I spake all men gave me the greatest attention, and my word was a law to them; and waited and kept silence , &c. Expecting till I spake, and silently listening to my...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory was...
After my words they spake not again; either to confute them as false, or to add to them as lame and imperfect. Dropped upon them, to wit, as the rain, as the next verse explains it, which when it...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...
Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him
Amos 7:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:2 ; Ezekiel 20:46 ; Isaiah 52:15 ; Job 32:15 ; Job 32:16 ; Job 33:31-33 ; Micah 2:6 ; Matthew 22:46 ; Song of Solomon 4:11
Dropped — As the rain, which when it comes down gently upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it.