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Job 19:23-27
International Standard Version
Job 19:23-27
International Standard Version
23 If only my words were written down;
if only they were inscribed in a book
24 using an iron stylus with lead for ink!
Then they’d be engraved in rock forever.
25 “As for me, I know that my Vindicator[a] is alive;
And he, the Last One,[b] will take his stand on the soil.[c]
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,
clothed in my flesh I will see God,
27 whom I will see for myself.
My own eyes will look at him—
there won’t be anyone else for me!—
He is the culmination of my innermost desire.”
Job 19:23-27
Lexham English Bible
Job 19:23-27
Lexham English Bible
23 “O that[a] my words could be written down!
O that they could be inscribed in a scroll![b]
24 That with a pen of iron and with lead
they might be engraved on a rock forever!
25 But[c] I myself[d] know that my redeemer is alive,
and at the last he will stand up upon the earth.[e]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
but[f] from[g] my flesh I will see God,
27 whom I will see for myself,[h]
and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.[i]
My heart faints within me.[j]
Footnotes
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who then shall give and”
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed”
- Job 19:25 Hebrew “And”
- Job 19:25 Emphatic personal pronoun
- Job 19:25 Literally “dust”
- Job 19:26 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:26 Or “without”
- Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
- Job 19:27 Or “another”
- Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
Job 19:23-27
New International Version
Job 19:23-27
New International Version
23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,(A)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(B) on[a] lead,
or engraved in rock forever!(C)
25 I know that my redeemer[b](D) lives,(E)
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[c]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet[d] in[e] my flesh I will see God;(F)
27 I myself will see him
with my own eyes(G)—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns(H) within me!
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