Holy Scripture
Job 31:36
A church father on this verse
“"I have torn all that was received unjustly." Without boasting, I have torn what I had received. And the expression "on my shoulders" suggests that some [of his friends] gloried in the afflictions of the others; and I did not content myself with giving it back simply, but I nullified it by tearing it. "I have torn all…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
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In context
34(For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them): And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom
35(Oh that I had a hearer), And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; And as to the written charge which I had against anyone,
— Job 31:36 —
37And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.
38If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;