Job 19:27
It 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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In Context
26And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
28Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”
Cross References
Numbers 24:17I shall see him, but not presently. I shall gaze upon him, but not soon. A star shall rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall spring up from Israel. And he shall strike down the commanders of Moab, and he shall devastate all the sons of Seth.
Psalms 17:15And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.
Isaiah 33:17His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
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 →