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Job 23:3 — King James Version← Study notes

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!


Job 23:3Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:37 words
HebrewMeaning
מִֽיmiy
who?particleH4310
he · him · O that! what · which ···
יִתֵּ֣ןyitēn
will he giveverbH5414
apply · appoint · ascribe · assign ···
יָ֭דַעְתִּיyādaʿətiy
I knewverbH3045
acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···
וְ/אֶמְצָאֵ֑/הוּwəʾeməṣāʾēhw
and I will find himconjH4672
be able · being · catch · certainly ···
אָ֝ב֗וֹאʾābwōʾ
I will comeverbH935
apply · attain · be · befall ···
עַדʿad
topronH5704
and · as · at · before ···
תְּכוּנָתֽ/וֹtəkwnātwō
place hisnounH8499
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 23:3

Then Job answered and said, Now also is my complaint bitter: and the hand of my stroke is heavier than my groaning. In his own way blessed Job sets out with the plainer sort of words, but his declaration he closes by the deep following on of mystery. For the pain of the afflicted man ought to have been healed by the consoling of his friends, but because their consoling broke out into the soothings of deceit, the pain of the stricken man was made harsher. For whereas Eliphaz…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §30
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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