Job 29:23 — Meaning and Application

Unto me {men} gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide {as} for the latter rain.

{If} I laughed on them, they believed {it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one {that} comforteth the mourners.