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26 After my skin has been torn apart this way—
    then from my flesh[a] I’ll see God,
27         whom I’ll see myself—
        my eyes see,[b] and not a stranger’s.
    I am utterly dejected.

Warning

28 You say, “How will we pursue him
    so that the root of the matter can be found in him?”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:26 Or without my flesh or in my flesh
  2. Job 19:27 Or have seen
  3. Job 19:28 Heb manuscripts; MT in me

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