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26 Even after my skin has been stripped off my body,
    I will see Eloah in my own flesh.
27 I will see him with my own eyes,
    not with someone else’s.
    My heart fails inside me!

Job Warns His Friends

28 “You say,
    ‘We will persecute him!
    The root of the problem is found in him.’

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26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[a] in[b] my flesh I will see God;(A)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(B)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(C) within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound(D) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  2. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from
  3. Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me