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Job 29:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. "
Job 29:21
Verse in Context
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19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
21 “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
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Job 29:1
"Job again took up his parable, and said,"
Job 29:2
"“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;"
Job 29:3
"when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,"
Job 29:4
"as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,"
Job 29:5
"when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,"
Job 29:6
"when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,"
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