Job Chapter 29 verse 7 Holy Bible
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
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When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
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When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
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When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,
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When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - When I went out to the gate through the city; rather, by the city, or over against the city. The "gate" was the place where justice was administered, and public business generally despatched. It would be "over against" the city, separated from it by a large square or place (רְחוב), in which a multitude might assemble (sue Nehemiah 8:1). Hither Job was accustomed to proceed from time to time, to act as judge and administrator. When I prepared my seat in the street. On such occasions a seat would be brought out and "prepared," where the judge would sit to hear causes and deliver sentences (comp. Nehemiah 3:7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) To the gate.--There business was transacted. (Comp. the expression, which is still used with reference to the Turkish Empire, of "the Sublime Porte," or the supreme Place of government; Psalm 127:5; Jer. 35:20, &c.)
