Job 29:14
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
Cross References
Job 27:6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
Isaiah 59:17He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
Isaiah 62:3And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
2 Corinthians 6:7In the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left;
1 Thessalonians 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for 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 →