Job 23:3
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Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

Oh that

Job 13:3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 40:1-5 And the Lord went on, and said to Job: . . .

Isaiah 26:8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

Jeremiah 14:7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

where

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:19,20 For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation. . . .

Hebrews 4:6 Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

that I might

Job 31:35-37 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, . . .

Context
Job Longs for God
2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning. 3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.…
Cross References
Job 23:2
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Job 23:4
I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Lexicon
If only
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

I knew
יָ֭דַעְתִּי (yā·ḏa‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

where to find Him,
וְאֶמְצָאֵ֑הוּ (wə·’em·ṣā·’ê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

so that I could go
אָ֝ב֗וֹא (’ā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

His seat.
תְּכוּנָתֽוֹ׃ (tə·ḵū·nā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8499: Arrangement, preparation, fixed place


Additional Translations
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

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

Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

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

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

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

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

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
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