Job 29:7

Translations

Modern

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Traditional

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Literal

Or in my going out to the gate upon the town, in the square I established my seat;

Latin

…quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.

Original

Hebrew

English

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Notes

Job 29:7

The city gate served as the town's administrative center (see Ruth 4:1–2, 11).

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Deuteronomy 16:18
You 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.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
Ruth 4:1–2
Meanwhile, 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.
Ruth 4:11
“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
Deuteronomy 21:19
…his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Job 31:21
…if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

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