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Job 29:7

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;

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

8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
KJV
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
WEB
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
ASV
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
DARBY
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
BLB
[Or] in my going out [to] the gate upon the town, in the square I established my seat;
ÅB
Når jeg gikk opp til porten i byen og inntok mitt sete på torvet,
OTB
Da jeg gikk til byporten,
Da jeg tok mitt sete på torget,
B1930
Når jeg gikk op til porten i byen og inntok mitt sete på torvet,

Study notes (Tyndale)

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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.

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  • 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:

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  • 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.

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  • 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 Beth-lehem:

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  • Job 31:21

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

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  • 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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