27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
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.
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.
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 confessi…
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