Job 19:23
"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 forever and ever.
- Job 31:35 : 35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
- Isa 8:1 : 1 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'
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24That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
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35oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
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8"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
9even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Job 23:2-54 verses74%
2"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
- Job 19:21-222 verses74%
21"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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2"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
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5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
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2"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
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13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
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1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
22Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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2"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
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5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
- Job 16:19-202 verses70%
19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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36I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
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15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
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19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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9If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
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9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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15Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
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21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
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16For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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2Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
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9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
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18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
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22As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
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11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'
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7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
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26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
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19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
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19But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
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17I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
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20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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1My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
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22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
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28If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,
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10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.