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What the Fathers say

Job 29:23

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

And they waited for me as the rain, and opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. Where too it is fitly added, They waited for me as the rain, and opened their mouth as for the latter rain. For the words of holy preaching we undergo as rain, when by true humility we learn the dryness of our hearts, that we may be watered by the draught of holy preaching. Whence also it is rightly said to God by the Psalmist, My soul is like earth without water to Thee. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After he had described what sort of person he was in judgments and counsels, he shows, as a consequence, what sort of person he was in ordinary associations with men. First he shows that he was gracious, because when he was absent they missed his presence, and so he says, "They waited for me like the rain," which refreshes men. …

Commentary on Job ↗