OLD TESTAMENT

Job 29:7

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when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

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Verse 7. To the gate. Septuagint “early.”—Chair, or throne, where Job sat in judgment. Bible.—It appears evident that he was the prince in his city. Idumea had at first several petty kings at the same time. Genesis 36:15. Calmet.—But Job had several princes (ver. 9. Bible.) under him. Pineda.

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