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Job 19:27

King James Version (KJV)

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

Job 19:27 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 19:27

Theological / Devotional

I shall see. “The patriarch Job, looking down to the time of Christ’s second advent, said, ‘Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not a stranger’” (COL 421). Job indicates that in the resurrection he will retain his personal identity.

My reins. There is no “though” in the Hebrew. The sentence is detached from the foregoing. The reins were considered to be the seat of strong emotion, and Job here seems to be expressing an earnest longing for the fulfillment of the glorious events of which he had just spoken.

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