American King James Version
"Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. "
— Job 31:36, American King James Version
“Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.”
“Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: ”
“Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.”
“Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;”
“That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?”
“Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;”
“Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.”
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
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?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: