Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were engraved in a book!
New American Standard Bible
Oh that they were
King James Version
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Holman Bible
that they were recorded on a scroll
International Standard Version
If only my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book
A Conservative Version
O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
American Standard Version
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Amplified
“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
Bible in Basic English
If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!
Darby Translation
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give now, and my words shall be written? who will give and they shall be delineated in a book?.
King James 2000
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{O that} my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O that my words were written, O that they were put in a book:
NET Bible
"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
New Heart English Bible
"Oh that my words were now written. Oh that they were inscribed in a book.
The Emphasized Bible
Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
Webster
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
World English Bible
"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
Interlinear
Nathan
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Am Forgotten
22 Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were engraved in a book! 24 Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 30:8
Now go, write it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come forever and ever,
Job 31:35
Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment.
Isaiah 8:1
And Jehovah said to me, Take a great scroll and write in it with a man's pen: Make Haste to Plunder! Hasten to the Prey!