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24 If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock,
    that would be good.
Then they would never disappear.
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.

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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.

24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool(A) on[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!(B)
25 I know that my redeemer[b](C) lives,(D)
    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;(E)

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  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