Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I 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,
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 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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil. 7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat. 8 Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people -- a righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 21:19
then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,
Ruth 4:1-2
And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, 'Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people who are in the gate say -- also the elders -- 'Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;
Job 31:21
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,