O that my words were now written!....
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Job 19:23
Job 19:23
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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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…Job 19:23Job 19:23 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeOh: 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…Job 19:23Job 19:23 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bibleand closes the chapter with an expostulation with his friends, dissuading them from persecuting him any longer, since there was no reason for it in himself, and it might be attended with bad consequences to them