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26 Even after my skin is eaten by disease,
    while still in this body[a] I will see God.[b]
27 I will see him with my own eyes,
    and he will not be a stranger.

My courage failed because you said,
28     “How can we torment him?”
    You looked for some excuse to attack me.

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  1. Job 19:26 while still in this body; or although not in this body.
  2. Job 19:26 Verse 26 in Hebrew is unclear.

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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  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