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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.
26 After I leave my body and my skin has been destroyed,
    I know I will still see God.

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24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(A) on[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(B)
25 I know that my redeemer[b](C) lives,(D)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[c]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[d] in[e] my flesh I will see God;(E)

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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
  4. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  5. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from