Job 19:23-27
English Standard Version
23 “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were (A)inscribed in a book!
24 Oh that with an iron (B)pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
25 For I (C)know that my (D)Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the (E)earth.[a]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in[b] my flesh I shall (F)see God,
27 whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not (G)another.
My heart (H)faints within me!
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.”
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