Job 29:14
Also I put on righteousness, 1 And clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
In Context
13Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; 1 Yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. 1
15I was the eye of the blind, 1 And the foot of the lame. 1
Cross References
Job 27:6But keeping fast to my righteousness I will by no means let it go: 1 For I am not conscious to myself of having done anything amiss. 1
Isaiah 59:17And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,
Isaiah 62:3And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
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 →