Job 31:36

Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

35Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,

37I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

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Cross References

Job 29:14I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

Isaiah 62:3Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royall diademe 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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