Job 31:36 · KJV
“Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, {and} bind it {as} a crown to me.”
— Job 31:36
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job 31 — Context
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?
35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, {and} bind it {as} a crown to me.
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; {complain: Heb. weep}
Cross References
Isaiah 22:22
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, {my} dearly beloved.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment {was} as a robe and a diadem.
Isaiah 62:3
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Exodus 28:12
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod {for} stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.