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22 Why do you, as if you were God, pursue and persecute me? [Acting like wild beasts] why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

23 Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book [carved on a tablet of stone]!

24 That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!

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22 Why do you pursue(A) me as God does?(B)
    Will you never get enough of my flesh?(C)

23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,(D)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(E) on[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 Or and

22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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22 Why do you (A)persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

23 “Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!

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