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25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.[a]
    I know that, in the end, he will stand on the earth.
26 Illness may completely destroy my skin.
But after that happens,
    I know that in this body I will see God.
27 I will see him for myself,
    with my own eyes.
It makes me feel weak inside as I think about it!

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  1. 19:25 A ‘redeemer’ is someone who pays another person's debts. Job uses it here as a name for God. In the New Testament, we read that Jesus paid the price for all the wrong things that we have done.

25 I know that my redeemer[a](A) lives,(B)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[b]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[c] in[d] my flesh I will see God;(C)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(D)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(E) within me!

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Footnotes

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