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26 Even after my skin [a]is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I shall (A)behold God,
27 Whom I [b]myself shall behold,
And whom my eyes will see and not another.
My [c]heart (B)faints [d]within me!
28 If you say, ‘How shall we (C)persecute him?’
‘And the root of the matter is found in [e]him?’

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  1. Job 19:26 Lit which they have cut off
  2. Job 19:27 Or on my side
  3. Job 19:27 Lit kidneys
  4. Job 19:27 Lit in my loins
  5. Job 19:28 Lit me

26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet[a] in[b] my flesh I will see God;(A)
27 I myself will see him
    with my own eyes(B)—I, and not another.
    How my heart yearns(C) within me!

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound(D) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,[c]

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  1. Job 19:26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
  2. Job 19:26 Or destroyed, / apart from
  3. Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me