King James Version
Job 31:36 in the King James Version says “Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.”
Job 31:36 · KJV
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 mine adversary had written a book. my: or, my sign is that the Almighty will
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; complain: Heb. weep
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“it upon my shoulder”
H7926the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill
“Surely I would take”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
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