Job 29:14

I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.

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In The King James Version

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

In Context

13The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.

15I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.

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Cross References

Job 27:6I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.

Isaiah 59:17He clothed himself with justice as with a breastplate, and with a helmet of salvation upon his head. He put on the vestments of vengeance, and he was covered with zeal as with a cloak.

Isaiah 62:3And you shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

2 Corinthians 6:7with the Word of truth, with the power of God, and with the armor of justice to the right and to the left;

1 Thessalonians 5:8But we, who are of the daylight, should be sober, being clothed with the breastplate of faith and of charity and having, as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18

7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →

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