Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 21:19; Ruth 4:1; Ruth 4:11; Ruth 4:2; Zechariah 8:16
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 magi...
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 in...
street . broad or open place.
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 t...
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 noble...
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...
Through the city] RV 'unto the city.' Job went with other elders to administer justice at the city gate. Observe that Job did not live in the city;...
To the gate. — There business was transacted. (Comp. the expression, which is still used with reference to the Turkish Empire, of “the Sublime Port...
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 in...
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...
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 fo...
(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 prepare...
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 th...
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 o...
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 i...
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, a...
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 th...
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,...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
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....
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...
Job Describes his Former Prosperity
when I went out to the gate through the city, up to the city from the place of his residence in the country, when I prepared my seat in the street,...
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 — I...
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!