Job 19:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: And though after my skin worms destroy this body - My skin, which is now almost all that remains of my former self, except the bones; see Job 19:20. They destroy this - not body. נקפו זאת nikkephu zoth, they - diseases and affliction, destroy This wretched composition of misery and corruption.

Yet in my flesh shall I see God - Either, I shall arise from the dead, have a renewed body and see him with eyes of flesh and blood, though what I have now shall shortly moulder into dust, or, I shall see him in the flesh; my Kinsman, who shall partake of my flesh and blood, in order that he may ransom the lost inheritance.

Job 19:26

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