Job 29:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 29:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When I went out to the gate - The “gate” of a city was a place of public concourse, and where courts were usually held. Job speaks here as a magistrate, and of the time when he went forth to sit...
Job 29:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....
Job 29:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

street . broad or open place.
Job 29:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! When I went out to the gate - Courts of justice were held at the gates or entrances of the cities of the East; a...
Job 29:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! The great influence Job had over young and old, and noblemen. Through ... street - rather, 'when I went...
Job 29:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...
Job 29:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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; Psalms 12...
Job 29:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Job 29:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...
Job 29:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...
Job 29:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
Job 29:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When I went out to the, gate through the city ,.... Job having described his former state of happiness by the personal favours he enjoyed, and by the prosperity of his family, and his abundance of p...
Job 29:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! Ver. 7. When I went out to the gate ] i.e. To the place of judicature, called by Solomon the holy place, E...
Job 29:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When I went out to the gate When I went from my dwelling to the gate of the city, the place of judicature, which, as has often been observed, was in the gates. When I prepared my seat in the stree...
Job 29:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...
Job 29:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

7 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 refr...
Job 29:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When I went out from my dwelling to the gate, to wit, of the city, as the following words show; to the place of judicature, which was in the gates, as hath been oft observed. Through the city; th...
Job 29:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...
Job 29:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...
Job 29:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...
Job 29:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Describes his Former Prosperity
Job 29:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 16:18 ; Deuteronomy 21:19 ; Ruth 4:1 ; Ruth 4:11 ; Ruth 4:2 ; Zechariah 8:16
Job 29:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Seat — When I caused the seat of justice to be set for me. By this, and several other expressions, it appears that Job was a magistrate. Street — In that open place, near the gate, where the people...

Job 29:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 29:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 29:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 29:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 29:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 29:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 29:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 29:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 29:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 29:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 29:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 29:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 29:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 29:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 29:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 29:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 29:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 29:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 29:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 29:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 29:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 29:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 29:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes