Job 31:36

That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

In Context

35Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

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Cross References

Job 29:14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

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.

Matthew Henry on Job 31:34-40

Job's Protestation of His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as… Read the whole commentary →

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