Job 31:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, And bind it as a crown to me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder and wind the scroll about my head as a diadem.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

Common English Bible

³⁶ Surely I would bear it on my shoulder, tie it around me like a wreath.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ which I would then carry on my shoulder and wrap around me like a crown?

Job 31:36 Cross References

Isaiah 22:22

I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and no one shall shut; he shall shut, and no one shall open.

Philippians 4:1

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Isaiah 62:3

You shall be a beautiful crown in the hand of the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

Exodus 28:12

You shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance.

Job 31:35

O that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Job 31:37

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.