OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 36

Job 31:36

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Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,

and I would bind it to me as a crown.

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Job 31:33–39

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if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,

by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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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—

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oh that I had one to hear me!

Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!

Let the accuser write my indictment!

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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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if I have eaten its fruits without money,

or have caused its owners to lose their life,

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