Job 29:7
When I went forth to the gate by the city, And took my seat in the market-place,
Noyes 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 I bathed my steps in milk, And the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged arose and stood.
Cross References
Job 31:21If I have shaken my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate,—
Zechariah 8:16These are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; Judge according to truth, and for 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 →