Job 29:22

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After I spoke, they did not speak again, and my words fell gently upon them.

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  • Deut 32:2 : 2 May my teaching fall like rain, my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on grass and abundant showers on plants.
  • Matt 22:46 : 46 No one could answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, my bride, drip honey like a honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
  • Isa 52:15 : 15 so he will startle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
  • Amos 7:16 : 16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
  • Mic 2:6 : 6 'Do not preach,' they preach. 'Do not preach about such things; disgrace will not overtake us.'
  • Job 32:15-16 : 15 They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them. 16 Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer?
  • Job 33:31-33 : 31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you. 33 But if not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouths wide for the spring rain.

    24When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my face brought them no discouragement.

  • Job 29:21
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    21People listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel.

  • Job 32:14-16
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    78%

    14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

    15They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

    16Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer?

  • Job 29:9-11
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    75%

    9Leaders refrained from speaking and laid their hands on their mouths.

    10The voices of nobles quieted, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

    11For when the ear heard me, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me.

  • Deut 32:1-2
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    72%

    1Listen, heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

    2May my teaching fall like rain, my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on grass and abundant showers on plants.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    69%

    13Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to harm me speak of ruin and plot deception all day long.

    14But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.

  • Ps 39:2-3
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    2I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

    3I was silent in stillness; I held my peace even from good, but my sorrow was stirred up.

  • Job 33:31
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    31Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

  • Job 32:11
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    11I waited while you spoke, I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

  • Dan 10:15
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    15While he was speaking to me with these words, I bowed my face to the ground and became speechless.

  • Isa 36:21
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    21But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, 'Do not answer him.'

  • Job 37:20
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    20Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • Jer 38:27
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    27All the officials did come to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard the conversation.

  • Isa 28:23
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    23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear my words.

  • Jer 23:22
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    22But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16For I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited.

  • Prov 1:30
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    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.

  • Ps 19:3
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    3Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they reveal knowledge.

  • Job 33:33
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    33But if not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

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    1But now, Job, please listen to my words and pay attention to all I have to say.

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    3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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    20Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.

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    28The clouds pour it out; they drip upon mankind in abundance.

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; chaos rolls in like a wave under the crash of destruction.

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    17The LORD said to me, 'What they say is good.'

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    31They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.

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    20For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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    9Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

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    9But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

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    19to a trumpet blast or a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,

  • Gen 44:6
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    6When the steward caught up to them, he said these words to them.

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    3The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

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    16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must plead with him with my own mouth.

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    22Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came, and He opened my mouth. So, when the fugitive arrived in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer silent.

  • Jer 7:27
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    27When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer you.

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    6Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, ‘Do not answer him.’