The Meaning of Job 19:27 Explained

Job 19:27

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

YLT: Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

Darby: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: my reins are consumed within me.

ASV: Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 19:27 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.
Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

1  Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6  shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21  He craves pity
23  He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:27 mean?

Whom I shall see for myself and my eyes shall behold and not another [How] yearns my heart within me
אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִ֨י ׀ אֶֽחֱזֶה־ לִּ֗י וְעֵינַ֣י רָא֣וּ וְלֹא־ זָ֑ר כָּל֖וּ כִלְיֹתַ֣י בְּחֵקִֽי

אֲשֶׁ֤ר  Whom 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
אֶֽחֱזֶה־  shall  see 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: חָזָה  
Sense: to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide.
לִּ֗י  for  myself 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
וְעֵינַ֣י  and  my  eyes 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, cdc, first person common singular
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
רָא֣וּ  shall  behold 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: רָאָה 
Sense: to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider.
וְלֹא־  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
זָ֑ר  another 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
כָּל֖וּ  [How]  yearns 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
כִלְיֹתַ֣י  my  heart 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: כִּלְיָה  
Sense: kidneys.
בְּחֵקִֽי  within  me 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: חֹוק 
Sense: bosom, hollow, bottom, midst.

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