Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 29:23

23. And they waited for me, as for the rain , and they opened their mouth for me as for the latter rain.

As the Earth or the Husbandman waiteth for the rain, to wit, the former rain▪ of which see Deut. 11. 14. because the latter rain is here opposed to it: See Iam. 5. 7.

To receive my words, and therewith to satisfie their thirst, as the dry and parched Earth gapes or opens its mouth to receive the Rain.