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Job 19:26

Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Whom I shall see for myself,.... For his pleasure and profit, to his great advantage and happiness, and to his inexpressible joy and satisfaction, see Psa 17:15;

and mine eyes shall behold, and not…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:23-29

In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

andthough after my skinworms destroy See trans. above. The word destroymeans to break off, strike down or off, as branches from a tree (Isa 10:34). The words literally run, and after my skin which…