Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
In my going forth to the gate upon the city, in the street I shall prepare my seat
New American Standard Bible
When I
King James Version
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Holman Bible
and took my seat in the town square,
International Standard Version
"Whenever I went out to the city gate, a seat had been reserved for me in the plaza.
A Conservative Version
when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
American Standard Version
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
Amplified
“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat [as a city father] in the square,
Bible in Basic English
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
Darby Translation
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
King James 2000
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square!
Lexham Expanded Bible
"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.
Modern King James verseion
when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;
NET Bible
When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
New Heart English Bible
when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
The Emphasized Bible
When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,
Webster
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
World English Bible
when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Youngs Literal Translation
When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Interlinear
Kuwn
Mowshab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
6 In washing my goings with butter, and the rock will pour out with me streams of oil; 7 In my going forth to the gate upon the city, in the street I shall prepare my seat 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the old men rose up and stood.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment
Deuteronomy 21:19
And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place;
Ruth 4:1-2
And Boaz went up to the gate and sat there: and behold, the blood relation whom Boaz spake of, passing by; and he will say, Turn aside, sit down here; thou such a one. And he will turn aside, and sit down.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people which are in the gate will say, and the old men, Witnesses. Jehovah will give the woman coming into thy house as Rachel and as Leah, which they two built up the house of Israel: and make thou power in Ephratah, and call a name in the house of bread.
Job 31:21
If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:
Zechariah 8:16
These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.