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Job 31:36 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

Job 31:36

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34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

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

37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

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From This Chapter

Job 31:1

"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"

Job 31:2

"For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"

Job 31:3

"Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"

Job 31:4

"Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"

Job 31:5

"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"

Job 31:6

"Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity."

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