Job 19:26
And even after diseases have eaten away my skin, while I still have my body, I will see God.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
In Context
27I will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed as I think about that!
Cross References
Psalms 16:11You will show me the road that leads to receiving eternal life, and you will make me joyful when I am with you. I will have pleasure forever when I am ◄at your right hand/seated next to you►.
Matthew 5:8God is pleased with people who think only about that which pleases him; some day they will be where God is and will see him.
1 Corinthians 15:53And the bodies of us who are alive at that time will also be changed {And God will also change the bodies of us who are alive at that time}. These bodies of ours that die and decay must be transformed into new bodies that will never die; it will be like someone [MET] getting rid of his old clothes and putting on new ones.
1 John 3:2Dear friends, even though ◄at present/now► we are God’s children, he has not yet ◄made clear/revealed► to us what we will be like in the future. However, we know that when Christ comes back again, we will be like him, because we will see what he is really like.
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 →