When I saw my help in the gate— When I saw myself superior in the gate. Houbigant. That is, superior in authority, sufficient to influence those judges, whose usual place of hearing causes was in the gates of cities, as we have often had occasion to observe.
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Job 31:21
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: