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Job 19:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Oh: Heb. Who will give, etc

my words: Job 31:35; Isaiah 8:1, Isaiah 30:8

oh that they were: Rather, "Oh that they were described yuchakoo: in a book, with an iron stile and lead! Were graven on a rock for ever!" Pliny observes, "At first men wrote on palm leaves, and afterwards on the bark or rind of other trees. In process of time, public monuments were written on rolls of lead (plumbeis voluminibus:); and those of a private nature on linen books, or tables covered with wax."

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