Job 29:7 (BSB)
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Commentary on Job 29:7
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 29:7-17: We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 29:7: 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 plenty at home, proceeds to give an account of the honour and respect he had from men of every age and rank abroad: though he had an affluence of the...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 29:7: The great influence Job had over young and old, and noblemen. through . . . street!--rather, When I went out of my house, in the country (see Job 1:1, prologue) to the gate (ascending), up to the city (which was on elevated ground), and when I prepared my (judicial) seat in the market place.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 29:7-10: Job 29:7-10 7 When I went forth to the gate of the city, Prepared my seat in the market, 8 Then the young men hid themselves as soon as they saw me, And the aged rose up, remained standing. 9 Princes refrained from speaking, And laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The voice of the nobles was hidden, And their tongue clave to their palate.