Job 19:23

American Standard Version (1901)

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
  • Isa 8:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

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