Job 19:27
Whom I, even I, shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another's. My reins are consumed within me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
26And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see God;
28If ye say: 'How we will persecute him!' seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;
Cross References
Numbers 24:17I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth.
Psalms 17:15As for me, I shall behold Thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul pineth for Thy salvation; in Thy word do I hope.
Isaiah 33:17Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.
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 →