Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Darby Translation
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 bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil!
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment.
Ruth 4:1And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And behold, he that had the right of redemption, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. And he said, Thou, such a one, turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.
Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
Zechariah 8:16These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in 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 →