Job 29:7
When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Literal Standard 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
6When washing my goings with butter, || And the firm rock [is] with me—streams of oil.
8Youths have seen me, and they have been hidden, || And the aged have risen—they stood up.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And two of the messengers come toward Sodom at evening, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sees, and rises to meet them, and bows himself—face to the earth,
Deuteronomy 16:18You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous judgment.
Ruth 4:1And Boaz has gone up to the gate, and sits there, and behold, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he says, “Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one”; and he turns aside and sits down.
Job 31:21If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see [him] in the gate of my court,
Zechariah 8:16These [are] the things that you do: Each speak truth with his neighbor, || Judge [with] truth and peaceful judgment 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 →