Job 29:7
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
In Context
6When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.
8The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:18You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Ruth 4:1And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.
Job 31:21If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Zechariah 8:16These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:2-7
Former Prosperity of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Losers may have leave to speak, and… Read the whole commentary →