Verse 23
Job 19:23
World English Bible, British Edition
23
“Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִֽי יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ וְ/יִכָּתְב֣וּ/ן מִלָּ֑/י מִֽי יִתֵּ֖ן בַּ/סֵּ֣פֶר וְ/יֻחָֽקוּ
English Translation
Who will give that they may be written in a book and be engraved?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 19 Context
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Then Job answered,
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“How long will you torment me,
and crush me with words?
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You have reproached me ten times.
You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
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If it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
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If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach,
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know now that God (Elohim) has subverted me,
and has surrounded me with his net.
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“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
and has set darkness in my paths.
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He has stripped me of my glory,
and taken the crown from my head.
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He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
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He has also kindled his wrath against me.
He counts me amongst his adversaries.
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His troops come on together,
build a siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my tent.
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“He has put my brothers far from me.
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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My relatives have gone away.
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
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Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am an alien in their sight.
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I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
I beg him with my mouth.
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My breath is offensive to my wife.
I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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Even young children despise me.
If I arise, they speak against me.
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All my familiar friends abhor me.
They whom I loved have turned against me.
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My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends,
for the hand of God (Elohim) has touched me.
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Why do you persecute me as God (Elohim),
and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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“Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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That with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
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But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
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After my skin is destroyed,
then I will see God (Elohim) in my flesh,
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whom I, even I, will see on my side.
My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.
“My heart is consumed...
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If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
because the root of the matter is found in me,
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be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
that you may know there is a...
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