Job 29:7 · KJV
“When I went out to the gate through the city, {when} I prepared my seat in the street!”
— Job 29:7
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; {me: Heb. with me}
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, {and} stood up.
Job 29 — Context
When the Almighty {was} yet with me, {when} my children {were} about me;
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; {me: Heb. with me}
7When I went out to the gate through the city, {when} I prepared my seat in the street!
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, {and} stood up.
9The princes refrained talking, and laid {their} hand on their mouth.
Cross References
Ruth 4:1-2
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Zechariah 8:16
These {are} the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: {execute...: Heb. judge truth, and the judgment of peace}
Ruth 4:11
And all the people that {were} in the gate, and the elders, said, {We are} witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: {do thou...: or, get thee riches, or, power} {be famous: Heb. proclaim thy name}
Deuteronomy 21:19
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: