Job 19:23-27
New King James Version
23 “Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
26 And after my skin is [a]destroyed, this I know,
That (A)in my flesh I shall see God,
27 Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my [b]heart yearns within me!
Job 19:23-27
Lexham English Bible
23 “O that[a] my words could be written down!
O that they could be inscribed in a scroll![b]
24 That with a pen of iron and with lead
they might be engraved on a rock forever!
25 But[c] I myself[d] know that my redeemer is alive,
and at the last he will stand up upon the earth.[e]
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
but[f] from[g] my flesh I will see God,
27 whom I will see for myself,[h]
and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.[i]
My heart faints within me.[j]
Footnotes
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who then shall give and”
- Job 19:23 Literally “Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed”
- Job 19:25 Hebrew “And”
- Job 19:25 Emphatic personal pronoun
- Job 19:25 Literally “dust”
- Job 19:26 Hebrew “and”
- Job 19:26 Or “without”
- Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
- Job 19:27 Or “another”
- Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
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