King James Version
Job 23:3 in the King James Version says “Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!” — study this verse from Job chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!”
Job 23:3 · KJV
Then Job answered and said,
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. stroke: Heb. hand
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“I knew”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“where I might find”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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