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Job 29:6-16

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6 when my steps were 1washed with 2butter, and 3the rock poured out for me streams of 4oil!
7 When I went out to 5the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;
9 the princes refrained from talking and 6laid their hand on their mouth;
10 the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their 7tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
12 because I 8delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 9The blessing of him who was 10about to perish came upon me, and I caused 11the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I 12put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and 13a turban.
15 I was 14eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out 15the cause of him whom I did not know.
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Job 29:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 29

In this chapter Job gives an account of his former and wishes it was with him now as then; and which he describes with respect to his own person, and the favours he personally enjoyed, whether temporal or spiritual, Job 29:1-4; with respect to his family and domestic affairs, Job 29:5,6; with regard to the esteem he had from men of every age and station, Job 29:7-11; the reasons of which were the mercy and compassion he showed to the poor, the fatherless, and the widow, and the justice he administered in the execution of his office as a magistrate, Job 29:12-17; in which honour and prosperity he expected to have lived and died, Job 29:18-20; and which he further describes by the respect he had among men, and the power and authority he exercised over them, Job 29:21-25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. [Genesis 49:11]
  • 2. Job 20:17
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:13, 14; Psalms 81:16
  • 4. [Deuteronomy 33:24]
  • 5. See Job 5:4
  • 6. See Job 21:5
  • 7. Psalms 22:15; Psalms 137:6; Lamentations 4:4; Ezekiel 3:26
  • 8. Psalms 72:12
  • 9. Job 31:20
  • 10. Proverbs 31:6; Isaiah 27:13
  • 11. [Ruth 2:20]
  • 12. Psalms 132:9; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:10; [Isaiah 11:5; Ephesians 6:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:8]
  • 13. Isaiah 62:3; Zechariah 3:5; [Job 19:9]
  • 14. Numbers 10:31
  • 15. [Proverbs 29:7]
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