Job 29:23 - Exposition

They waited for me as for the rain ; i.e. "they were as eager to heat' me speak as the parched ground is to receive the winter rain, which it expects and waits for and absorbs greedily." And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain . They drank in my discourse as the spring vegetation drinks in the spring showers, known in the East generally as "the latter rains."