Job 29:14
I have put on righteousness, and it clothes me, || My justice as a robe and a crown.
Literal Standard Version
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 the perishing comes on me, || And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.
15I have been eyes to the blind, || And I [am] feet to the lame.
Cross References
Job 27:6On my righteousness I have laid hold, || And I do not let it go, || My heart does not reproach me while I live.
Psalms 132:9Your priests put on righteousness, || And Your pious ones cry aloud.
Isaiah 59:17And He puts on righteousness as a breastplate, || And a helmet of salvation on His head, || And He puts on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, || And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.
Isaiah 62:3And you have been a crown of beauty in the hand of YHWH, || And a turban of royalty in the hand of your God,
2 Corinthians 6:7in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armor of righteousness, on the right and on the left,
1 Thessalonians 5:8and we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet—a 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 →