Job 19:23-25

²³"If only my words were written in a book--a

²⁴better yet, chiseled in stone!

²⁵Still, I know that God lives--the One who gives me back my life--and eventually he''ll take his stand on earth.b

Job 19 contains some of the most raw and honest lament in all of Scripture. Job feels abandoned by God, alienated from his friends and family, and crushed by suffering. Yet in the midst of this darkness, he erupts with one of the Old Testament's most stunning confessions of hope:

References· Job 19

a: v.23 — The predicted resurrection: John 5:24; Isaiah 30:8, Isaiah 8:1, Job 31:35
b: v.25 — Ephesians 1:7, Isaiah 54:5, Psalms 78:35, Proverbs 23:11, Psalms 19:14, John 5:22-29, Isaiah 59:20-21, Jeremiah 50:34, Isaiah 43:14, Job 16:19
c: v.26 — Matthew 5:8, 1 John 3:2, Psalms 17:15, Revelation 1:7, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Psalms 16:11, Philippians 3:21, Psalms 16:9, 1 Corinthians 15:53

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