Job 29:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.
  • Ruth 4:1-2 : 1 Then went Boaz vp to the gate, and sate there, and beholde, the kinsman, of whome Boaz had spoken, came by: and he sayd, Ho, snch one, come, sit downe here; he turned, and sate downe. 2 Then he tooke ten men of the Elders of the citie, and sayd, Sit ye downe here; they sate downe.
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are ye things that ye shall doe. Speake ye euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour: execute iudgement truly & vprightly in your gates,
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the Elders sayd, We are witnesses: the Lorde make the wife that commeth into thine house, like Rahel and like Leah, which twaine did build the house of Israel: & that thou mayest doe worthily in Ephrathah, & be famous in Beth-lehem,
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
  • Deut 21:19 : 19 Then shall his father and his mother take him, & bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, & vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:2-6
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    2 Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

    3 When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

    4 As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

    5 When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

    6 When I washed my pathes with butter, & when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:

  • 8 The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

  • 19 Thus hath the Lord said vnto me, Goe and stande in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the Kings of Iudah come in, and by the which they goe out, & in all ye gates of Ierusalem,

  • Prov 7:6-8
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    6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

    7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

    8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

  • Neh 2:13-15
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    13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, & came before the draggon well, and to the dung porte, and vewed the walles of Ierusalem, howe they were broken downe, and the portes thereof deuoured with the fire.

    14 Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme for the beast that was vnder me to passe.

    15 Then went I vp in ye night by the brooke, and viewed the wall, and turned backe, and comming backe, I entred by the gate of the valley & returned.

  • 11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

  • 28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

  • Prov 9:14-15
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    14 But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,

    15 To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

  • 37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

  • Prov 8:2-3
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    2 She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.

    3 She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,

  • 12 They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkardes sang of me.

  • 21 She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

  • Job 29:14-16
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    14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

    15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

    16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

  • 25 I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

  • Job 31:26-27
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    26 If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

    27 If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand,

  • 12 The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

  • 2 I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • 28 But I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy fury against me.

  • 7 The watchmen that went about the citie, founde me: they smote me and wounded me: the watchmen of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.

  • 22 Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.

  • 21 If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

  • 3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

  • 12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

  • 2 As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had welneere slipt.

  • 32 Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.

  • 26 Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.

  • 17 I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • 27 I knowe thy dwelling, yea, thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy furie against me.

  • 5 Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.

  • 25 (7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

  • 7 If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,

  • 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

  • 34 Blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, & giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.

  • 10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.

  • 7 I haue seene seruants on horses, and princes walking as seruants on the ground.

  • 3 Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.