Job 29 Bible study: I put on righteousness

"My justice was as a robe and a diadem" (29:14). In Hebrew robe is the word of "Then Job arose, and tore his robe" (1:20), after the messengers' news (1:13-19), and of the friends, who "each tore his robe" (2:12). These are its three uses in Job (tap robe).

Job 29:14 · Job 1:20 · Job 1:13-19 · Job 2:12

Every word of this chapter is Job's. Its heading, "Job again took up his parable, and said" (29:1), is the heading of 27:1 word for word, and what follows runs with no other heading until "The words of Job are ended" (31:40). It opens with a wish: "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me" (29:2) (tap watched over). In Hebrew months is the word of "so I am made to possess months of misery" (7:3). Then comes a run of when: "when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness" (29:3), "when the friendship of God was in my tent" (29:4), "when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me" (29:5) (tap children), "when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me" (29:6), and "when I went out to the city gate" (29:7). The book told you of Job's children at its start: "There were born to him seven sons and three daughters" (1:2). On one day a messenger said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house" (1:18), and the house "fell on the young men, and they are dead" (1:19). The chapter says no more of them than 29:5, and these notes add nothing to it.

לָבַשׁlavashsay la-VASH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "put on (a garment), wear, clothe, be clothed". Strong's: "properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another)". "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me" (29:14): in Hebrew put on and clothed are this one verb, twice in one line. In the Hebrew of Job it comes eight times, two of them here. Job has used it of his own body: "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust" (7:5), and "You have clothed me with skin and flesh" (10:11). Bildad used it: "Those who hate you will be clothed with shame" (8:22).