Job 19:23-24 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!… Job's wish has been gratified; his memorial has found inscription on a tablet compared with which the granite rock is rubbish, and lead a withered leaf. It has found entry in the "Word of God, which liveth and endureth forever." No temple of fame like this. This dying desire of Job to find memorial is much too natural to be at all strange. Nothing is more common in death scenes than to find the departing one rally his failing strength, and eagerly utilise his last few breaths to give final charges that shall be religiously honoured, and with painfully wistful looks try to speak after vocal power is gone. Many and impressive are the lessons that here crowd into the mind. 1. Let us say what we have to say, and do what we have to do, in time, that during life we may so live that in the hour of death we may have only to die. 2. Let us be careful to say and do nothing in life which we shall long in death — alas! unavailingly — to unsay or undo. 3. Let us, above all, speak for God and the Gospel; for that, be assured, if we are conscious and in our right mind, will be what at death we shall be most eager to do, that every word might photograph itself on the everlasting rock, and speak in its living influence long years after we are dead. (J. Guthrie, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!WEB: "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
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