Job 29:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Job 29:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:5
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

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. 9)

7-10. The great influence Job had over young and old, and noblemen. through ... street!--rather, When I went out of my house, in the country (see Job 1:1, prologue) to the gate (ascending), up to the city (which was on elevated ground), and when I prepared my (judicial) seat in the market place. The market place was the place of judgment, at the gate or propylæa of the city, such as is found in th…