Job 29:7 Cross References - BSB

⁷ When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

¹⁸ You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

¹ Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. ² Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

¹¹ “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

¹⁶ These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,