Job 29:22-24

Evangelical Heritage Version

²² After I spoke, they did not keep speaking.^[a]
My words fell on them gently.
²³ They waited for me the way people wait for rain.
They opened their mouths the way people wait for spring showers.
²⁴ When I laughed with them, they did not believe it.
In the light from my face, they were never downcast.