Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 washed my pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
8The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And in the euening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sate at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sawe them, and rose vp to meete them, and he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.
Ruth 4:1Then went Boaz vp to the gate, and sate there, and beholde, the kinsman, of whome Boaz had spoken, came by: and he sayd, Ho, snch one, come, sit downe here. And he turned, and sate downe.
Job 31:21If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
Zechariah 8:16These are ye things that ye shall doe. Speake ye euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour: execute iudgement truely and vprightly 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 →