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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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:25 Or Redeemer
  2. Job 19:25 Lit. And the Last
  3. Job 19:25 Or dust

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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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 Or and
  2. Job 19:25 Or vindicator
  3. Job 19:25 Or on my grave
  4. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  5. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from