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Job 19:23 KJV
Job · chapter 19 · verse 23
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!Job 19:23 · King James Version
Job 19:23 in context
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?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- writtenkâthabto grave, by implication, to writeH3789 →
- printedchâqaqproperly, to hackH2710 →
- wordsmillâha wordH4405 →
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In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 23-29