Job 29:7
When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
6Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.
8The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And the two Angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of the city. And when he had seen them, he rose up and went to meet them. And he reverenced prone on the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,
Ruth 4:1Then Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman passing by, whom he had previously discussed, he spoke to him, calling him by his name, “Pause for a little while, and sit down here.” He turned aside and sat down.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
Zechariah 8:16Therefore, these are the words that you shall do: Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor. With truth and a judgment of peace, judge at your gates.
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 →