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Job 31:36 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown. "

Job 31:36

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34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

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

37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.

38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

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