Job 29:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

After my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell gently upon them.

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  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching shall drop as the rain, my words shall distill as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
  • Matt 22:46 : 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him any more questions.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
  • Isa 52:15 : 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they see; and what they had not heard shall they consider.
  • Ezek 20:46 : 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and speak toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
  • 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 prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.
  • Job 32:15-16 : 15 They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking. 16 When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more,
  • Job 33:31-33 : 31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak. 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. 33 If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:23-24
    2 verses
    82%

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

    24If I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

  • Job 29:21
    81%

    21Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

  • Job 32:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14Now he has not directed his words against me, nor will I answer him with your speeches.

    15They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking.

    16When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more,

  • Job 29:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths.

    10The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

    11When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me;

  • Deut 32:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

    2My teaching shall drop as the rain, my words shall distill as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

  • Ps 38:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

    14Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.

  • Ps 39:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

    3My heart burned within me, while I was musing, the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue,

  • Job 33:31
    68%

    31Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak.

  • Job 32:11
    68%

    11Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasoning while you sought what to say.

  • Dan 10:15
    68%

    15And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and became speechless.

  • Isa 36:21
    67%

    21But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's order was, Do not answer him.

  • Job 37:20
    67%

    20Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • Jer 38:27
    67%

    27Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

  • Isa 28:23
    67%

    23Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

  • Jer 23:22
    67%

    22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

  • Ps 38:16
    67%

    16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • Ps 135:17
    67%

    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
    67%

    9And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

  • Prov 1:30
    67%

    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my rebuke.

  • Ps 19:3
    67%

    3There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

  • Job 33:33
    67%

    33If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

  • Isa 28:12
    66%

    12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Job 33:1
    66%

    1Therefore, Job, I beg you, listen to my speeches, and pay attention to all my words.

  • Ps 32:3
    66%

    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Job 32:20
    66%

    20I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

  • Job 36:28
    66%

    28Which the clouds drop and distill upon man abundantly.

  • Job 30:14
    66%

    14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Deut 18:17
    66%

    17And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

  • Ezek 33:31-32
    2 verses
    66%

    31And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

    32And indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

  • Jer 29:19
    66%

    19Because they have not heeded my words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.

  • Ps 35:20
    66%

    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 39:9
    66%

    9I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.

  • Jer 20:9
    66%

    9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.

  • Heb 12:19
    66%

    19And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:

  • Gen 44:6
    66%

    6And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.

  • Isa 32:3
    66%

    3And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • Job 19:16
    66%

    16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth.

  • Ezek 33:22
    66%

    22Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before the one who had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

  • Jer 7:27
    66%

    27Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

  • Job 13:6
    65%

    6Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
    65%

    36But the people kept silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command was, Do not answer him.