Job 19:23
Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quis mihi tribuat ut scribantur sermones mei ? quis mihi det ut exarentur in libro
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τίς γὰρ ἂν δῴη γραφῆναι τὰ ῥήματά μου, τεθῆναι δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίῳ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מִֽי יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן מִלָּ֑י מִֽי יִתֵּ֖ן בַּסֵּ֣פֶר וְיֻחָֽקוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem
30. Listen to those words of thunder which fall from Job, the vanquisher of torments, who, as he scrapes away the filth of his decaying flesh with a potsherd, solaces his miseries with the hope and the reality of the resurrection:“Oh, that,” he says, “my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book with an iron pen, and on a sheet of lead, that they were graven in the rock for ever! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that in the last day I shall rise from the earth, and again be clothed with my skin, and in my flesh shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. This my hope is laid up in my bosom.” What can be clearer than this prophecy? No one since the days of Christ speaks so openly concerning the resurrection as he did before Christ. …