Job 19:26
New International Version
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

New Living Translation
And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

English Standard Version
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

Berean Standard Bible
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

King James Bible
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

New King James Version
And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,

New American Standard Bible
“Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God,

NASB 1995
“Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

NASB 1977
“Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Legacy Standard Bible
Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall behold God,

Amplified Bible
“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death], Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

Christian Standard Bible
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.

American Standard Version
And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And over my skin it is I will be surrounded with these things and over my flesh

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

Contemporary English Version
My flesh may be destroyed, yet from this body I will see God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

English Revised Version
And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh shall I see God:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even after my skin has been stripped off my body, I will see God in my own flesh.

Good News Translation
Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

International Standard Version
Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And when after my skin this is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

Literal Standard Version
And after my skin has surrounded this [body], | Then from my flesh I see God—

Majority Standard Bible
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

New American Bible
This will happen when my skin has been stripped off, and from my flesh I will see God:

NET Bible
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

New Revised Standard Version
and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

New Heart English Bible
After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

Webster's Bible Translation
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

World English Bible
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

Young's Literal Translation
And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

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Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. 27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!…

Cross References
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.


Treasury of Scripture

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

And though, etc.

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

in my flesh

Psalm 16:9,11
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope…

Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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(26) And though after my skin.--The word skin is probably put by the common metonymy of a part for the whole for body. "After they have thus destroyed my skin," or "after my skin hath been thus destroyed"--or, "and after my skin hath been destroyed--this shall be: that even from my flesh I shall see God"--referring, probably, in the first instance, to his present personal faith, notwithstanding the corruption produced by his disease. "I can and do still see God, whom I know as my Redeemer;" but perhaps more probably put in contrast to this present knowledge as implying something yet to come, when the Redeemer stands at the last upon the earth, which also seems to be yet further expressed in the following verse.

Verse 26. - And though after my skin worms destroy this body. The supposed ellipsis of "worms" is improbable, as is also that of "body." Translate, and after my skin has been thus destroyed - "thus" meaning, "as you see it before your eyes." Yet in my flesh shall I see God; literally, from my flesh - scarcely, as Renan takes it, "without my flesh," or "away from my flesh" - "prive de ma chair;" but rather, "from the standpoint of my flesh " - "in my body," not "out of my body" - shall I see God. This may be taken merely as a prophecy of the theophany recorded in ch. 38-42. (see especially Job 42:5). But the nexus with ver. 25, and the expressions there used - "at the last," and "he shall stand up over my dust" - fully justify the traditional exegesis, which sees in the passage an avowal by Job of his confidence that he will see God "from his body" at the resurrection.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Even after
וְאַחַ֣ר (wə·’a·ḥar)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

my skin
ע֭וֹרִֽי (‘ō·w·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5785: Skin, hide, leather

has been destroyed,
נִקְּפוּ־ (niq·qə·p̄ū-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5362: To strike, to knock together, surround, circulate

yet in my flesh
וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י (ū·mib·bə·śā·rî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

I will see
אֶֽחֱזֶ֥ה (’e·ḥĕ·zeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2372: To gaze at, to perceive, contemplate, to have a, vision of

God.
אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity


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