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Job 23:3

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

KJV

Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus ?

Vulgate

τίς δ’ ἄρα γνοίη ὅτι εὕροιμι αὐτὸν καὶ ἔλθοιμι εἰς τέλος;

LXX

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

ASV

מִֽי יִתֵּ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי וְ/אֶמְצָאֵ֑/הוּ אָ֝ב֗וֹא עַד תְּכוּנָתֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
הוּ
hv
verb · 455×
וֹ
v
pronoun · 1×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Heb 4:6 — Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
  • Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
  • Isa 41:21 — Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
  • Isa 43:26 — Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
  • Jer 14:7 — O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
  • Jer 30:21 — And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his hea
  • Job 13:3 — Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
  • Job 16:21 — O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
  • Job 16:21 — O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
  • Job 19:7 — Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 40:7 — Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
  • Ps 42:2 — My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
  • Ps 84:2 — My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.