The Meaning of Job 19:23 Explained

Job 19:23

KJV: Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

YLT: Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

Darby: Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!

ASV: Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 19:23?

MEANING: What does Job 19:23 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 19:23 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 19:23?

What is the context of Job 19:23?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

What does Job 19:23 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"

In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.

Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

¹ Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
⁶ shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
²¹ He craves pity
²³ He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:23 mean?

Oh that were now and were written my words they were in a book and they were inscribed

מִֽי־ יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ ! וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן מִלָּ֑י יִתֵּ֖ן ! בַּסֵּ֣פֶר וְיֻחָֽקוּ

מִֽי־	Oh that
Parse: Interjection Root: מִי Sense: who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever.
אֵ֭פוֹ	now
Parse: Conjunction Root: אֵפֹוא Sense: then, now, so.
! וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן	and were written
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine plural, Paragogic nun Root: כָּתַב Sense: to write, record, enrol.
מִלָּ֑י	my words
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular Root: מִלָּה Sense: word, speech, utterance.
יִתֵּ֖ן	they were
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: יָתַן Sense: to give, put, set.
! בַּסֵּ֣פֶר	in a book
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: סֵפֶר Sense: book.
וְיֻחָֽקוּ	and they were inscribed
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hofal, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: חָקַק Sense: to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern.

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