Job 29:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ When I went out to the gate through the city, When I prepared my seat in the street!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the street [the broad place for the council at the city's gate],

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Common English Bible

⁷ When I went out to the city gate, took my seat in the square,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ When I went out to the gate of the city: and in the street they prepared me a chair?

Job 29:7 Cross References

Genesis 19:1

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 34:20

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood;

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.

Proverbs 8:3

beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:

Jeremiah 38:7

Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint judges and officials throughout your tribes, in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall render just decisions for the people.

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem;