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27 whom I will see for myself,[a]
and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.[b]
My heart faints within me.[c]
28 “If you[d] say, ‘How will we persecute him?’
And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,[e]
29 be afraid for yourselves because of the sword,[f]
for wrath brings punishment by[g] the sword,
so that you may know that there is judgment.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:27 Literally “I myself will see for myself”; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb
  2. Job 19:27 Or “another”
  3. Job 19:27 Literally “My kidneys fail in my lap”; see NRSV
  4. Job 19:28 Plural
  5. Job 19:28 Or “‘The root of the trouble is found’ in him”
  6. Job 19:29 Literally “from the faces of the sword”
  7. Job 19:29 Literally “of”