Job 19:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

"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;{"Maher Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."}'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 24 That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

  • Job 31:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    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!

    36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.

  • Job 6:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8 "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!

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

    10 Be 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 23:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2 "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

    4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

    22 Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job 6:2-3
    2 verses
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    2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

    3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

  • 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!

  • 2 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 1 Oh 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!

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21 They 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.

    22 Let 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.

  • 2 "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

  • 5 But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

  • Job 16:19-20
    2 verses
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    19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

    20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

  • 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

  • 15 My 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.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 9 If 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].

  • 9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • 15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • 21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

  • Ps 38:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

    17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • 2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

  • 9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 22 As 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.

  • 11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 26 For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • 19 But 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 the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.

  • 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

  • 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 1 > My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

  • 22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.

  • 28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because the root of the matter is found in me,

  • 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.