Job 19:27
Whom I shall myself behold to my happiness, and whom my eyes will see, and not as a stranger, [when even] my reins are consumed within my bosom.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
26And after my skin is cut to pieces will this be: and then freed from my body shall I behold God;
28But if ye should say, How will we pursue him? seeing 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 steppeth forth a star out of Jacob, and there ariseth a sceptre out of Israel, and he pierceth the chiefs of Moab, and destroyeth all the children of Sheth.
Psalms 17:15As for me, in righteousness shall I behold thy face: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with contemplating thy likeness.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul ardently desireth for thy salvation: for thy word do I wait.
Isaiah 33:17The king in his beauty shall thy eyes behold: they shall see a far-off land.
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 →