Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!

Ver. 7. When I went out to the gate] i.e. To the place of judicature, called by Solomon the holy place, Ecclesiastes 8:11, because God sitteth in the midst of those gods, Psalms 82:1. The Ethiopian judges were wont to keep the chief seat empty for him. It appeareth by this text that Job was a judge: or chief magistrate, not like those whom Isaiah calleth scabs or wounds, Isaiah 3:7, vid. Pisc. in loc.; but those whom the same prophet calleth healers, or binders up of wounds, Isaiah 3:7, Here αναξ from ακος, Medela; and Hosea, shields, as Junius translateth, Hosea 4:8; and another prophet, heirs or possessors of restraint, Judges 18:7. It appeareth also that he did justice in his own person; so did David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Augustus Caesar, more vigorously than any young man, and more prudent than any old man, as the historian saith of him, Pαντος μεν ανδρος νεανικωπερον, παντος δε γεροντος φρονιμωτερον (Dio). Which while Aurelian the emperor neglected to do, he was even bought and sold by his deputies.

When I prepared my seat in the street/] i.e. My judgment seat, where he sat Sub dio, non attollens inane supercilium, sed exhibens utile ministerium, Not priding himself, but profiting others, while justice, justice, as Moses speaketh, that is, pure justice, was duly administered, Deuteronomy 10:20. Over this tribunal might well have been set that distich at Zant,

Hic locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,

Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, iura, bonos.