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23 “Oh, that my words could be recorded.
    Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
24 carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead,
    engraved forever in the rock.

25 “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
    and he will stand upon the earth at last.
26 And after my body has decayed,
    yet in my body I will see God![a]
27 I will see him for myself.
    Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
    I am overwhelmed at the thought!

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  1. 19:26 Or without my body I will see God. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

23 “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were (A)inscribed in a book!
24 That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
25 As for me, I know that (B)my [a]Redeemer lives,
And [b]at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world.
26 Even after my skin [c]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall (C)behold God,
27 Whom I [d]myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My [e]heart (D)faints [f]within me!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:25 Or Vindicator, Defender; lit kinsman
  2. Job 19:25 Lit after, cf. Job 19:26
  3. Job 19:26 Lit which they have cut off
  4. Job 19:27 Or on my side
  5. Job 19:27 Lit kidneys
  6. Job 19:27 Lit in my loins