13 “If only you would hide me in the grave(A)
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!(B)
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember(C) me!(D)
14 If someone dies, will they live again?
    All the days of my hard service(E)
    I will wait for my renewal[a](F) to come.
15 You will call and I will answer you;(G)
    you will long for the creature your hands have made.(H)

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  1. Job 14:14 Or release

13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

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23 “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,(A)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(B) on[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(C)
25 I know that my redeemer[b](D) lives,(E)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[c]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[d] in[e] my flesh I will see God;(F)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(G)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(H) within me!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:24 Or and
  2. Job 19:25 Or vindicator
  3. Job 19:25 Or on my grave
  4. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  5. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from

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.

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