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23 “I wish someone would write down everything I say.
    I wish my words were written on a scroll.
24 I wish they were carved with an iron tool into lead
    or scratched on a rock so that they would last forever.
25 I know that there is someone to defend me and that he lives!
    And in the end, he will stand here on earth and defend me.

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23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,(A)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(B) on[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(C)
25 I know that my redeemer[b](D) lives,(E)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 Or and
  2. Job 19:25 Or vindicator
  3. Job 19:25 Or on my grave