Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 29:22
After my words they spoke not again and my speech dropped upon them.
22. dropped upon them ] i. e. like a refreshing, quickening rain, when they were wearied and perplexed in counsel.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
After my words they spake not again – The highest proof which could be given of deference. So full of respect were they that they did not dare to dispute him; so sagacious and wise was his counsel that they were satisfied with it, and did not presume to suggest any other.
And my speech dropped upon them – That is, like the dew or the gentle rain. So in Deu 32:2 :
My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall distil as the dew,
As the small rain upon the tender herb,
And as the showers upon the grass.
So Homer speaks of the eloquence of Nestor,
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Tou kai apo glosses melitos glukion ren aude.
Words sweet as honey from his lips distilld.
Pope
So Milton, speaking of the eloquence of Belial, says,
– Though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Paradise Lost, B. ii.
The comparison in the Scriptures of words of wisdom or persuasion, is sometimes derived from honey, that drops or gently falls from the comb. Thus, in Pro 5:3 :
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb,
And her mouth is smoother than oil,
So in Son 4:11 :
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb;
Honey and milk are under thy tongue.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. My speech dropped upon them.] It descended as refreshing dew; they were encouraged, comforted, and strengthened by it.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. not againdid notcontradict me.
droppedaffected theirminds, as the genial rain does the soil on which it gently drops(Amo 7:16; Deu 32:2;Son 4:11).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 Ec 2:12;
and my speech dropped upon them; his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, Am 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, So 4:11; or rather like the rain, as in
De 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
22. Speech dropped Rain is frequently used as a metaphor for pleasing and gentle discourse. “My doctrine shall drop as the rain.” (Deu 32:2.) Thus Milton, “Though his tongue dropt manna.”
Job 29:22. My speech dropped upon them My speech dropped upon them like the dew. Houb.
Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Ver. 22. After my words they spake not again ] They replied not, but rested in my words, as if I had been some Doctor Resolutus or rather Irrefragabilis. The Vulgate rendereth it, Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, They dared not add anything to my words, as holding them current and sufficient.
And my speech dropped upon them 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.
Reciprocal: Pro 10:21 – feed
29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech {o} dropped upon them.
(o) That is, was pleasant to them.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes