Job Chapter 29 verse 25 Holy Bible
I chose out their way, and sat `as' chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
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I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...
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I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.
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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.
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I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - I chose out their way, and sat chief. Though not an absolute monarch, but only a patriarchal head, I practically determined the course which the tribe took, since my advice was always followed. I thus "sat chief" - nay, dwelt as a king in the army (or, in the host i.e. among the people), as one that comforteth the mourners; i.e. as one to whom all looked for comfort in times of distress and calamity, as much as for counsel and guidance at other times (vers. 21-23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) I sat.--It is still the custom among the Jews for mourners to sit upon the ground and for one who wishes to console them to occupy a seat above them. Such is Job's pathetic lamentation over the days that were gone. He appears before us as a conspicuous example of one who had worn the poet's crown of sorrow in the remembrance of happier things in time of sorrow. He is the type and representative of suffering humanity, of man waiting for redemption, but as yet unredeemed. It is in this way that he points us on to Christ, who, Himself the Redeemer, went through all the sorrows of sinful and unredeemed humanity. He is able to describe his former state and all its glory and bliss, while his friends are constrained to listen in silence. They have said their worst, they have aspersed and maligned his character, but they have not silenced him; he is able to make the most complete vindication of all his past life, to contrast its happiness with the present contempt and contumely of it, so much owing to them and their heartless, unsympathetic treatment of him, while they can make no reply.
