Job 29:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Cross References

Genesis 19:1

And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

Genesis 34:20

Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

Job 29:8

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

Job 31:21

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Proverbs 8:3

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

Jeremiah 38:7

Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 21:19

Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

Ruth 4:11

And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;