20. My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has struck me!
22. Why do you persecute me as God does,and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23. “Oh, that my words were written!Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24. That they were engraved with an iron penand lead in the rock forever!
25. For I know that my Redeemer lives,and He will stand at last on the earth;
26. and after my skin is destroyed,yet in my flesh I will see God,
27. whom I will see for myself,and my eyes will behold, and not another.How my heart yearns within me.
28. “If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’since the root of the matter is found in me,