Job 29:22

22 verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum

Job 29:22 Meaning and Commentary

Job 29:22

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 ( Ecclesiastes 2:12 ) ;

and my speech dropped upon them;
his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, ( Amos 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, ( Song of Solomon 4:11 ) ; or rather like the rain, as in ( Deuteronomy 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.

Job 29:22 In-Context

20 gloria mea semper innovabitur et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur
21 qui me audiebant expectabant sententiam et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum
22 verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum
23 expectabant me sicut pluviam et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum
24 si quando ridebam ad eos non credebant et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.