Job 29:22
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
BSB
ASV
After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
KJV
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
His servants that stood continually before him to hear his wisdom would not have envied Solomon's. Those are wise, or are likely to be so, that know how to value wise discourse, that wish for it, and wait for it, and drink it in as the earth does the rain that comes often upon it, Heb. vi.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
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For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
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Isaiah 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
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In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes…
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Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
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When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.