Job 29:23
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
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as for the rain

Psalm 72:6
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

the latter rain

Hosea 6:3
So let us know--let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Zechariah 10:1
Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give them showers of rain and crops of the field for everyone.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.

King James Bible
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.

International Standard Version
They waited for me as one waits for rain, as one opens his mouth to drink in a spring rain shower.

NET Bible
They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.
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