Job 31:36
Good News Translation
I would wear them proudly on my shoulder and place them on my head like a crown.

New Revised Standard Version
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown;

Contemporary English Version
Then I would wear his charges on my clothes and forehead.

New American Bible
Surely, I should wear it on my shoulder or put it on me like a diadem;

Douay-Rheims Bible
That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Exodus 28:12 And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.

Isaiah 22:22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

a crown

Job 29:14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

Isaiah 62:3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
35Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, 36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.…
Cross References
Job 31:35
Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Job 31:37
At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

Job 31:35
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