Job’s Final Appeal
Job 31:36
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
- KJV
- Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
- WEB
- Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
- ASV
- Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:
- LSV
- If not—on my shoulder I take it up, || I bind it [as] a crown on myself.
- YLT
- If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.
- DBY
- Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;
- DRC
- That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
- GNV
- Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me?
- JPS
- Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.
- LXXE
- I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־לֹ֣א עַל־שִׁ֭כְמִי אֶשָּׂאֶ֑נּוּ אֶֽעֶנְדֶ֖נּוּ עֲטָר֣וֹת לִֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- ἐπʼ ὤμοις ἂν περιθέμενος στέφανον ἀνεγίνωσκον,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 22:22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- Isaiah 62:3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
- Exodus 28:12Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.
- Philippians 4:1Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you must stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
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