Job 31:36
“Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me.”
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Job 31:36 Context
34Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore? 35O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke. 36Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me. 37I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him. 38If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine:
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Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.
- King James Version
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, I would bind it to myself like a crown.
- New American Standard Version (1995)