I will see Him for myself;
He himself will see God, and his eyes will behold him, not another; his heart faints within him.
This verse makes the coming encounter intensely personal.
1Then Job answered: 2“How long will you torment me 3Ten times now you have reproached me; 4Even if I have truly gone astray, 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me 7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; 9He has stripped me of my honor 10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; 11His anger burns against me, 12His troops advance together; 13He has removed my brothers from me; 14My kinsmen have failed me, 15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; 16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, 17My breath is repulsive to my wife, 18Even little boys scorn me; 19All my best friends despise me, 20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, 22Why do you persecute me as God does? 23I wish that my words were recorded 24by an iron stylus on lead, 25But I know that my Redeemer lives, 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, 27I will see Him for myself; 28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, 29then you should fear the sword yourselves,