Job 19:26

And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

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In The King James Version

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

In Context

25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.

27It is he whom I myself will see, and he whom my eyes will behold, and no other. This, my hope, has taken rest in my bosom.

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Cross References

Psalms 16:11They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.

Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

1 Corinthians 15:53Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.

1 John 3:2Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Matthew Henry on Job 19:24-29

Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. ( b. c. 1520.) 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. 28… Read the whole commentary →

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