Teks -- Job 29:22 (NET)

29:22 After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

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Wesley: Job 29:22 - Dropped

As the rain, which when it comes down gently upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it.

JFB: Job 29:22 - not again

Did not contradict me.

JFB: Job 29:22 - dropped

Affected their minds, as the genial rain does the soil on which it gently drops (Amo 7:16; Deu 32:2; Son 4:11).

Clarke: Job 29:22 - My speech dropped upon them

My speech dropped upon them - It descended as refreshing dew; they were encouraged, comforted, and strengthened by it.

TSK: Job 29:22 - After my // speech

After my : Job 32:15, Job 32:16, Job 33:31-33; Isa 52:15; Mat 22:46

speech : Deu 32:2; Son 4:11; Eze 20:46; Amo 7:16; Mic 2:6 *marg.

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Poole: Job 29:22 - After my words they spake not again // Dropped upon them

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 comes down gently and droppingly upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it; not so when it comes in great and violent showers.

Gill: Job 29:22 - After my words they spake not again // and my speech dropped upon them

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 them, and much less to contradict them, and treat them with contempt; or "differed not", as Mr. Broughton renders it; differed not from them, but agreed to them; and differed not among themselves, but united in what Job said, as being full to the purpose, after which nothing more could be said; see Ecc 2:12;

and my speech dropped upon them; his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, Amo 7:16; his doctrine dropped from his lips like the honeycomb, and was sweet, grateful, and delightful to his hearers, as the church's lips, Son 4:11; or rather like the rain, as in Deu 32:2, when it falls and drops gently and easily, and so penetrates and soaks into the earth, and abides and does good: in like manner, when good and sound doctrine drops upon the hearers, so as to enter into their hearts, and work effectually in them, it does them good, and they rejoice at it, and are far from having anything to say against it.