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
Job 19:23-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 “O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!(A)
24 O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock forever!(B)
25 For I know that my vindicator[a] lives
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;(C)
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(D)
27 whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!(E)
Footnotes
- 19.25 Or redeemer
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