...milk, from the dwellings of the cattle, flowed in streams through the streets. Scanda Purina. 7. — " When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street." This intimates that Job was a judge amongst his people, as the courts of justice in former times were...

...arm. The seat is prepared, and the cross-legged sage sits to hear and answer questions. 8, 9. — " The young men saw me and hid themselves ; and the aged arose and stood up. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth." What a graphic scene is this ! When a man of...

...that every person paid him the utmost deference. 1B40 city, when I prepared my seat in the street ! 8 9 The princes refrained talking, and alaid their hand on their mouth. 10 bThe nobles held their peace,...

...children were about me; when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; when I went out to the gate through the city; when...themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their peace and their tongue...

...chosen as arbitrator in differences. What Job said of himself, was really applicable to Mr. Durham : " When I went out to- the gate, through the city, when...young men saw me and hid themselves ; and the -aged rose and stood up ; the nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth...

...were about me ; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured "me out rivers of oil ; 7 When I went out to the gate through 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. 9 The princes refrained...

...of oil ! 7 When I went out to the gate through the city, Щеп I prepared my seat in the street : 8 z1 9 The princes refrained talking, And laid their hand on their mouth. 10 * The nobles held their peace,...

...deservedly respected according to his own account ; but nothing like what he came to be by these means. " When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street (says he) the young men saw me and hid themselves, the aged arose and stood up ; the princes refrained...

...so many striking pictures of patriarchal times, the phrase is used in that sense; ch. 27. 7—12, ' When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in in the street, &c.—I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to...

...expressions with which it abounds. The following passage also is considered as pointing to such an origin — "when I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street." — Chap, xxix, 7. It is thought that Job here speaks of himself as a civil magistrate, who had a seat...