Job 29:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Job 29:11 —

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Cross-References

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Luke 4:22
And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Luke 11:27
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-17)

We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an affectation of pomp, but in an affection to justice. Observe, Judgment was administered…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. blessed--extolled my virtues (Pr 31:28). Omit “me” after “heard”; whoever heard of me (in general, not in the market place, Job 29:7-10) praised me. gave witness--to my honorable character. Image from a court of justice (Lu 4:22). the eye--that is, “face to face”; antithesis to ear--that is, report of me.