New English Translation
Job 19:26
26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
Job 19:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
- New International Version (NIV)And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
- English Standard Version (ESV)And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
- New King James Version (NKJV)And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
Context of Job 19:26
24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever! 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me. 28If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
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וְאַחַ֣ר ע֭וֹרִֽי נִקְּפוּ־זֹ֑את וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י אֶֽחֱזֶ֥ה אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:26
- Psalms 17:15As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.
- Psalms 16:9So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.
- Matthew 5:8“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
- Philippians 3:21who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
- 1 John 3:2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
- Revelation 1:7(Look! He is returning with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes on the earth will mourn because of him. This will certainly come to pass! Amen.)
Commentaries on Job 19:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26And though after my skin worms destroy this body - My skin, which is now almost all that remains of my former self, except the bones; see Job 19:20. They destroy this - not body. זאת נקפו nikkephu zoth, they - diseases and affliction, destroy This wretched composition of misery and corruption. Yet in my flesh shall I see God - Either, I shall arise from the dead, have a renewed body and see him with eyes of flesh and blood, though what I have now shall…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26And though - Margin, Or, after I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God. This verse has given not less perplexity than the preceding. Noyes renders it, And though with this skin this body be wasted away, Yet in my flesh shall I see God. Dr. Good renders it, And, after the disease hath destroyed my skin, That in my flesh I shall see God. Rosenmuller explains it, “And when after my skin (scil. is consumed and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26Job believed God would prove him right, even if he died first.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. Rather, though after my skin (is no more) this (body) is destroyed ("body" being omitted, because it was so wasted as not to deserve the name), yet from my flesh (from my renewed body, as the starting-point of vision, So 2:9, "looking out from the windows") "shall I see God." Next clause [Job 19:27] proves bodily vision is meant, for it specifies "mine eyes" [Rosenmuller, 2d ed.]. The Hebrew opposes "in my flesh." The "skin" was the first destroyed by…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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