Job 19:21-27

21“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.

22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

23“Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

24carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

25“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!