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the chief men refrained from talking
and covered their mouths with their hands;

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22 After I had spoken, they did not respond;
my words fell on them drop by drop.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:22 tn The verb simply means “dropped,” but this means like the rain. So the picture of his words falling on them like the gentle rain, drop by drop, is what is intended (see Deut 32:2).