Job 31:36 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 31:36 —

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Cross-References

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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.
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.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 33-40)

We have here Job’s protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God’s bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite to acquit himself. He clears himself from the charge, I. Of dissimulation and hy…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 36)

36. So far from hiding the adversary’s “answer” or “charge” through fear, I would take it on my shoulders--as a public honor (Is 9:6). a crown--not a mark of shame, but of distinction (Is 62:3).