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26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

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26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[a] in[b] my flesh I will see God;(A)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(B)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(C) within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound(D) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  2. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from
  3. Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me