36If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.


In Context

33 If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

34 Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

36 If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

38 If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

Job 31:36 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:36Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.