Job 23:3
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- KJV
- Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
- WEB
- Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
- ASV
- Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
- DARBY
- Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
- BLB
- Who will grant [that] I might know and find Him, [and] come unto His seat!
- ÅB
- Bare jeg visste å finne ham og kunne komme fram til hans trone!
- OTB
- Om jeg bare visste hvordan jeg kunne finne Ham,
så jeg kunne nå Hans bolig! - B1930
- Bare jeg visste å finne ham og kunde komme frem til hans trone!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Read in contextJob 31:35–37
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Read in contextHebrews 4:6
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Read in contextJeremiah 14:7
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Read in contextJob 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Read in contextIsaiah 26:8
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:19–20
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Read in contextJob 40:1–5
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
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