Verse 23
Job 19:23
Literal Standard Version
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Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
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?
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Chapter 19 Context
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And Job answers and says:
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“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?
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These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
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And also—truly, I have erred, || My error remains with me.
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If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, || And decide my reproach against me;
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Know now, that God (Elohim) turned me upside down, || And has set around His net against me,
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Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
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He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.
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He has stripped my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head.
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He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree.
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And He kindles His anger against me, || And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.
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His troops come in together, || And they raise up their way against me, || And encamp around my tent...
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He has put my brothers far off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
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My neighbors have ceased || And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
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Sojourners of my house and my maids, || Reckon me for a stranger; I have been an alien in their eyes...
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I have called to my servant, || And he does not answer, || With my mouth I make supplication to him.
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My spirit is strange to my wife, || And my favors to the sons of my mother’s womb.
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Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
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All the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me.
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To my skin and to my flesh || My bone has cleaved, || And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth...
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Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God (Elohim) has struck against me.
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Why do you pursue me as God (Elohim)? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
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With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever.
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That—I have known my Redeemer, || The Living and the Last, || For He raises the dust.
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And after my skin has surrounded this body, || Then from my flesh I see God (Elohim)—
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Whom I see on my side, || And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, || My reins have been consume...
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But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me.
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Be afraid because of the sword, || For the punishments of the sword are furious, || That you may kno...
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