Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
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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 washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Deuteronomy 16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.
Ruth 4:1Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Zechariah 8:16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbour. Execute the judgement of truth and 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 →