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Job’s Confidence in His Defender

23 “I wish now my words were written.
    I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
24 I wish they were forever engraved on a rock
    with an iron stylus and lead.[a]
25 But I know that my Go’el lives,
    and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 The order of the lines has been reversed because the English equivalent is difficult.

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