Job 19:25 (BSB)
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Commentary on Job 19:25
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 19:23-29: 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 19:25: And though after my skin worms destroy this body,.... Meaning not, that after his skin was wholly consumed now, which was almost gone, there being scarce any left but the skin of his teeth, Job 19:20; the worms in his ulcers would consume what was left of his body, which scarce deserved the name of a body, and therefore he points to it, and calls...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 19:25: redeemer--UMBREIT and others understand this and Job 19:26, of God appearing as Job's avenger before his death, when his body would be wasted to a skeleton. But Job uniformly despairs of restoration and vindication of his cause in this life (Job 17:15-16).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 19:25: For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: (q) I do not so justify myself before the world, but I know that I will come before the great judge who will be my deliverer and Saviour.