Job 19:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke,

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:8 : 8 Nowe therefore go thy way, and write this before them in a table, and note it in a booke: that it may finally remaine and be kept styll for euer.
  • Job 31:35 : 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.
  • Isa 8:1 : 1 Moreouer the Lorde sayde vnto me, Take thee a great roule, and wryte in it as men do with a pen: make hastie speede to rob, and haste to the spoyle.

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  • 24And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.

  • Job 31:35-36
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    35O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.

    36Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder, & as a garlande binde it about my head.

  • Job 6:8-10
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    8O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:

    9O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

    10Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • Job 23:2-5
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    2Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning.

    3O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

    4I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:

    5I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

  • Job 19:21-22
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    21Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.

    22Why do ye persecute me as God doth and are not satisfied with my fleshe?

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together:

    3For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me.

  • 5I wishe that my wayes were directed: for to kepe thy statutes.

  • 2O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me:

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

  • 8Nowe therefore go thy way, and write this before them in a table, and note it in a booke: that it may finally remaine and be kept styll for euer.

  • 1O who wyll geue my head water inough, and a wel of teares for mine eyes, that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people?

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

    22Let all their wickednesse come before thee, and do thou to them as thou hast done vnto me for all my trespasses: for my sorowe is very great, and my heart is heauy.

  • 2How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

  • 5But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:

  • Job 16:19-20
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    19For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is in the height.

    20My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.

  • 36O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:

  • 15My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • 9Wherefore I thought from hencefoorth not to speake of hym, nor to preache any more in his name: but the worde of the Lorde was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, whiche when I woulde haue stopped, I might not.

  • 9He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

  • 15Beholde, these men say vnto me, where is the worde of the Lorde? let it come nowe.

  • 21Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked.

  • Ps 38:16-17
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    16For I sayde heare me lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce them selues greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp.

    17Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght.

  • 2Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel: Write vp diligently all the wordes that I haue spoken vnto thee in a booke.

  • 9Lorde thou knowest all my desire: and my gronyng is not hyd from thee.

  • 18I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 22And when I fled with al haste, I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes: neuerthelesse, thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee.

  • 11He hath put my foote in the stockes, and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes.

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 26For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth.

  • 19But I am as a meeke lambe, an oxe that is caryed away to be slayne, not knowing that they had deuised suche a counsell against me saying, We wyll destroy his meate with wood, and driue him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name shall neuer be thought vpon.

  • 24For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:

  • 19But be not thou farre from me O God: thou art my strength, make haste to helpe me.

  • 17I may tell all my bones. They stande staring & gasing vpon me:

  • 20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 1To the chiefe musition (on the instrument) Sosannim (to be song of the) children of Corach. A song of loue, geuyng wise instructions. My heart is endityng of a good matter: I wyll dedicate my workes vnto the king, my tongue is as the penne of a redy writer.

  • 22Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone.

  • 28But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.

  • 10Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.