Job 19:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:8 : 8 ¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
  • Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.
  • Isa 8:1 : 1 ¶ Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

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    35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

    36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

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    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 23:2-5
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    2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

    3Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

    4I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

  • Job 19:21-22
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    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

    22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

  • 5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

  • 2Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 8¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

  • 1¶ Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

  • 2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • 5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

  • Job 16:19-20
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    19Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.

    20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.

  • 36My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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

  • 9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].

  • 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 15Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.

  • 21¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

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    16For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

    17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

  • 2Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

  • 9Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

  • 18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • 11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

  • 19But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  • 17I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

  • 20[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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  • 22[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • 28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.