Job Chapter 29 verse 8 Holy Bible
The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
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The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;
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Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - The young men saw me, and hid themselves; retired, i.e. withdrew to corners, that they might not obtrude themselves on one so much their superior. Compare the respect paid to age by the Spartans. And the aged arose, and stood up. Here the respect paid was not to age so much as to dignity. Men as old as himself, or older, paid Job the compliment of standing up until he was seated, in consideration of his rank and high office. So. in many assemblies, as in our own courts of justice, in Convocation, and elsewhere, when the president enters, all rise.