Job 19:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
  • Isa 8:1 : 1 And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

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