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Job 19:23

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

KJV

Quis mihi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei ? quis mihi det ut exarentur in libro

Vulgate

τίς γὰρ ἂν δῴη γραφῆναι τὰ ῥήματά μου, τεθῆναι δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίῳ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα,

LXX

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

ASV

מִֽי יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ וְ/יִכָּתְב֣וּ/ן מִלָּ֑/י מִֽי יִתֵּ֖ן בַּ/סֵּ֣פֶר וְ/יֻחָֽקוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵפ֔וֹא
'pv'
adverb · 15×
י
y
noun · 38×
כְּתוּבִ֗ים
ktvbym
verb · 225×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מְחֹקֵ֖ק
mchqq
verb · 19×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
סֵ֛פֶר
spr
noun · 188×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 5:8 — But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • Deut 6:9 — And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
  • Isa 8:1 — Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
  • Isa 30:8 — 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:
  • Isa 30:8 — 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:
  • Jer 17:1 — The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
  • Job 31:35 — Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
  • Mal 3:16 — Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon h
  • Ps 102:18 — This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.