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23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

Job 19:23

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

  • Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

  • Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-29)

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 ; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job’s creed, or confessi…

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