Job 29:7

What does Job 29:7 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 29:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

Context

v.6When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

v.7This passage

v.8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 16:18

    Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

  • Ruth 4:1

    Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near 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.

  • Job 31:21

    If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

  • Ruth 4:11

    And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:

  • Zechariah 8:16

    These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

  • 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;

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