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Oh that they were inscribed in a book!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/19.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/job/19.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/19.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/19.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/19.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/19.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_28_morning.htm">June 28 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I know that my Redeemer liveth.--JOB 19:25. If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.--This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Because I live, ye shall live also.--If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_28_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxix_jobs_faith_and.htm">Job's Faith and Expectation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand in the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. C hristianity, that is, the religion of which MESSIAH is the author and object, the foundation, life, and glory, though not altogether as old as creation, is nearly so. It is coeval [contemporary] with the first promise and intimation of mercy given to fallen man. When Adam, by transgression, had violated the order and law of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxix_jobs_faith_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 2</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_50_1904/jobs_sure_knowledge.htm">Job's Sure Knowledge</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For I know that my Redeemer liveth,"--Job 19:25. I DARESAY you know that there are a great many difficulties about the translation of this passage. It is a very complicated piece of Hebrew, partly, I suppose, owing to its great antiquity, being found in what is, probably, one of the oldest Books of the Bible. Besides that, different persons have tried to translate it according to their own varying views. The Jews stiffly fight against the notion of the Messiah and his resurrection being found in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_50_1904/jobs_sure_knowledge.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 50: 1904</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_9_1863/i_know_that_my_redeemer.htm">I Know that My Redeemer Liveth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Our text deserves our profound attention; its preface would hardly have been written had not the matter been of the utmost importance in the judgment of the patriarch who uttered it. Listen to Job's remarkable desire: "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" Perhaps, hardly aware of the full meaning of the words he was uttering, yet his holy soul was impressed with a sense of some weighty revelation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_9_1863/i_know_that_my_redeemer.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 9: 1863</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/lyra_germanica_the_christian_year/tuesday_in_easter_week_i.htm">Tuesday in Easter Week. I Know that My Redeemer Liveth . . And Though after My Skin Worms Destroy this Body, yet in My Flesh Shall I See God. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I know that my Redeemer liveth . . and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. From the Lesson. [1 Cor. 15:53] 7,7,7,7,7,7 Jesus meine Zuversicht [86]Louisa Henrietta, Electress of Brandenburgh. 1653. trans. by Catherine Winkworth, 1855 Jesus my Redeemer lives, Christ my trust is dead no more; In the strength this knowledge gives Shall not all my tears be o'er, Though the night of Death be fraught Still with many an anxious thought? Jesus my Redeemer lives, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/lyra_germanica_the_christian_year/tuesday_in_easter_week_i.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Catherine Winkworth—</span><span class="citation2">Lyra Germanica: The Christian Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song_of_songs_of_solomon/4_my_beloved_put_in.htm">My Beloved Put in his Hand through the Opening, and My Bowels Thrilled at his Touch. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Well-beloved, notwithstanding the resistance of his Bride, [29] puts in his hand by a little opening which yet remains to Him, that is, a remnant of abandonment, in spite of the repugnance of the soul to abandon herself so absolutely. A soul in this degree has a depth of submission to every will of God that will refuse him nothing; but when he unfolds his plans in detail, [30] and using the rights He has acquired over her, calls for the last renunciation and the extremest sacrifices, then it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song_of_songs_of_solomon/4_my_beloved_put_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Madame Guyon—</span><span class="citation2">Song of Songs of Solomon</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_essence_of_god_2.htm">Whether the Essence of God Can be Seen with the Bodily Eye?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that the essence of God can be seen by the corporeal eye. For it is written (Job 19:26): "In my flesh I shall see . . . God," and (Job 42:5), "With the hearing of the ear I have heard Thee, but now my eye seeth Thee." Objection 2: Further, Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xxix, 29): "Those eyes" (namely the glorified) "will therefore have a greater power of sight, not so much to see more keenly, as some report of the sight of serpents or of eagles (for whatever acuteness of vision <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_essence_of_god_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_the_resurrection_the.htm">Whether in the Resurrection the Soul Will be Reunited to the Same Identical Body?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the soul will not be reunited to the same identical body at the resurrection, for "thou sowest not the body that shall be, but bare grain" (1 Cor. 15:37). Now the Apostle is there comparing death to sowing and resurrection to fructifying. Therefore the same body that is laid aside in death is not resumed at the resurrection. Objection 2: Further, to every form some matter is adapted according to its condition, and likewise to every agent some instrument. Now the body <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_the_resurrection_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_will_be_identically.htm">Whether it Will be Identically the Same Man that Shall Rise Again?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that it will not be identically the same man that shall rise again. For according to the Philosopher (De Gener. ii): "Whatsoever things are changed in their corruptible substance are not repeated identically." Now such is man's substance in his present state. Therefore after the change wrought by death the self-same man cannot be repeated . Objection 2: Further, where there is a distinction of human nature there is not the same identical man: wherefore Socrates and Plato <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_will_be_identically.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_was_necessary_for_3.htm">Whether it was Necessary for Christ to Rise Again?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that it was not necessary for Christ to rise again. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iv): "Resurrection is the rising again of an animate being, which was disintegrated and fallen." But Christ did not fall by sinning, nor was His body dissolved, as is manifest from what was stated above ([4293]Q[51], A[3]). Therefore, it does not properly belong to Him to rise again. Objection 2: Further, whoever rises again is promoted to a higher state, since to rise is to be uplifted. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_was_necessary_for_3.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_subtlety_is_a_property.htm">Whether Subtlety is a Property of the Glorified Body?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that subtlety is not a property of the glorified body. For the properties of glory surpass the properties of nature, even as the clarity of glory surpasses the clarity of the sun, which is the greatest in nature. Accordingly if subtlety be a property of the glorified body, it would seem that the glorified body will be more subtle than anything which is subtle in nature, and thus it will be "more subtle than the wind and the air," which was condemned by Gregory in the city <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_subtlety_is_a_property.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/job/19-23.htm">Job 19:23 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/19-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 19:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 19:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/19-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 19:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 19:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/job/19-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>