Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 29:7

"When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street," — Job 29:7 (ASV)

To the gate. —There business was transacted. (Compare the expression, which is still used with reference to the Turkish Empire, of “the Sublime Porte,” or the supreme place of government; Psalms 127:5;Jeremiah 35:20, and others.)