Job 19:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 19:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job’s creed, or confessio…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. Rather, though after my skin (is no more) this (body) is destroyed (“body” being omitted, because it was so wasted as not to deserve the name), yet from my flesh (from my renewed body, as the starting-point of vision, So 2:9, “looking out from the windows”) “shall I see God.” Next clause [Job 19:27] proves bodily vision is meant, for it specifies “mine eyes” [Rosenmuller, 2d ed.]. The Hebrew o…