Job 29:7
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Majority Standard Bible
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 cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
8the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments 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 →