Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Majority Standard Bible
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 dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
Cross References
Job 27:6I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
Psalms 132:9May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
Isaiah 59:17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
Isaiah 62:3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
2 Corinthians 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
1 Thessalonians 5:8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our 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 →