¹⁹ Even now my witness^(A) is in heaven;^(B)
    my advocate is on high.^(C)
20 My intercessor^(D) is my friend^[a](E)
    as my eyes pour out^(F) tears^(G) to God;
²¹ on behalf of a man he pleads^(H) with God
    as one pleads for a friend.

⁵ If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me^(A)
    and use my humiliation against me,
⁶ then know that God has wronged me^(B)
    and drawn his net^(C) around me.^(D)

²⁵ I know that my redeemer^[a](A) lives,^(B)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.^[b]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet^[c] in^[d] my flesh I will see God;^(C)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes^(D)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns^(E) within me!