Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,
New American Standard Bible
That I might come to His seat!
King James Version
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Holman Bible
so that I could go to His throne.
International Standard Version
If only I knew where to find him, I would visit him where he has taken his seat.
A Conservative Version
O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
American Standard Version
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Amplified
“Oh, that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might [even] come to His seat!
Bible in Basic English
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Darby Translation
Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place.
King James 2000
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Lexham Expanded Bible
{O that} I knew and [that] I might find him; [O that] I might come to his dwelling.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
NET Bible
O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
New Heart English Bible
Oh that I knew where I might find him. That I might come even to his seat.
The Emphasized Bible
Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;
Webster
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
World English Bible
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Youngs Literal Translation
O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
Themes
Interlinear
Nathan
Yada`
Matsa'
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 23:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
2 "My saying is yet this day in bitterness, and my hand heavy among my groanings. 3 O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat, 4 to plead my cause before him, and to fill my mouth with arguments:
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Cross References
Job 13:3
Nevertheless I am purposed to talk with the almighty, and my desire is to commune with God.
Job 16:21
Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,
Job 31:35-37
O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.
Job 40:1-5
Moreover, God spake unto Job, and said,
Isaiah 26:8
Therefore, LORD, we have a respect unto the way of thy judgments; thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the LORD, while he may be found, and call upon him while he is nigh.
Jeremiah 14:7
"Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.
2 Corinthians 5:19-20
For God was in Christ, and made agreement between the world and himself, and imputed not their sins unto them: and hath committed to us the preaching of the atonement.
Hebrews 4:6
Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.