Job 29:14
Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
Young's Literal Translation
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 cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
Cross References
Job 27:6On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
Psalms 132:9Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.
Isaiah 59:17And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.
Isaiah 62:3And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,
2 Corinthians 6:7in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the 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 an 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 →