Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!
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,
Julia Smith Translation
In my going forth to the gate upon the city, in the street I shall prepare my seat
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 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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
6 when I washed my steps with curds, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me; 7 when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
Ruth 4:1-2
And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. And he said, Such a one! Turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. May Jehovah make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, for these two built the house of Israel. And may you be blessed in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do. Each man speak the truth to his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates.