Job 19:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Job 19:27 —

Old words in this verse

reins: — the inner self, deepest thoughts.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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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. 27)

27. for myself--for my advantage, as my friend. not another--Mine eyes shall behold Him, but no longer as one estranged from me, as now [Bengel]. though--better omitted. my reins--inward recesses of the heart. be consumed within me--that is, pine with longing desire for that day (Psa 84:2; 119:81). The Gentiles had but few revealed promises: how gracious that the few should have been so explicit (…