Job 31:36
I would hold them up high; I would wear them on my head like a crown.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
In Context
37I would explain to him everything I'd done; I would hold my head high before him.
Cross References
Job 29:14Being true and acting right were what I wore for clothing.
Isaiah 62:3You will be a crown of beauty in the Lord's hand; a royal head-dress in the hand of your 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 →