Job 19:21-27

The Voice

²¹    Show me your pity, my friends, show me your pity!
        For truly, I have been struck by the hand of God.
²²    Why do you pursue me as God has done?
        Is my emaciated body not satisfying enough for you?

²³    What I would give to have my words taken down,
        to have them inscribed for posterity on a scroll.
²⁴    No! More than that!
    To have them chiseled with iron filled with lead—
        carved in stone for all eternity.
²⁵    Besides, I know my Redeemer lives,
        and in the end He will rise and take His stand on the earth.
²⁶    And though my skin has been stripped off,
        still, in my flesh, I will see God.
²⁷    I, myself, will see Him:
        not some stranger, but actually me, with these eyes.
        Toward this end, my deepest longings pine away within my chest.