Job 19:23
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
In Context
22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:1And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take sway the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my… Read the whole commentary →