Job 29:22

“After my words they spake not again, etc.] 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 <210212> Ecclesiastes 2:12); and my speech dropped upon them; his prophecy, as Jarchi, prophesying being expressed by dropping, (<300716>Amos 7:16); his doctrine dropped from his lips like the…”

“not again--did not contradict me. dropped--affected their minds, as the genial rain does the soil on which it gently drops (Amo 7:16; Deu 32:2; Sol 4:11).”

“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 Deuteronomy 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, Τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή. Tou kai apo glōssēs melitos glukiōn rēn audē. “Words sweet as honey from…”

“Dropped - As the rain, which when it comes down gently upon the earth, is most acceptable and beneficial to it. Job 29:24”

“After my: Job 32:15, Job 32:16, Job 33:31-33; Isa 52:15; Mat 22:46 speech: Deu 32:2; Sol 4:11; Eze 20:46; Amo 7:16; Mic 2:6 \*marg. Job 29:23”