Job 19:19-27
Holman Christian Standard Bible
19 All of my best friends[a] despise me,(A)
and those I love have turned against me.(B)
20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, my friends,(C) have mercy,
for God’s hand(D) has struck me.(E)
22 Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23 I wish that my words were written down,
that they were recorded on a scroll
24 or were inscribed in stone forever
by an iron stylus and lead!
25 But I know my living Redeemer,[b](F)
and He will stand on the dust[c] at last.[d](G)
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,[e]
yet I will see God in[f] my flesh.(H)
27 I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.[g]
My heart longs[h] within me.(I)
Footnotes
- Job 19:19 Lit of the men of my council
- Job 19:25 Or know that my Redeemer is living
- Job 19:25 Or earth
- Job 19:25 Or dust at the last, or dust as the Last One
- Job 19:26 Lit skin which they destroyed, or skin they destroyed in this way
- Job 19:26 Or apart from
- Job 19:27 Or not a stranger
- Job 19:27 Lit My kidneys grow faint
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