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And Iוַאֲנִיknowיָדַעְתִּיthat my redeemerגֹּאֲלִיlives,חָיand that at the lastוְאַחֲרוֹןhe will riseיָקוּםonעַלthe dust.עָפָר
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גֹּאֵל
Job: “I know that my redeemer lives.”
Job 19:25
Study it in the app“And I know that my redeemer lives, and that at the last he will rise on the dust.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 19:25, word by word
- knowיָדַעְתִּיyadati
know
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadati” appears- that my redeemerגֹּאֲלִgoali
Redeemer
YHWH, who rescues his people.
Where else “goali” appears- livesחָיchay
alive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chay” appears- and that at the lastאַחֲרוֹןacharon
last
What comes at the end or goes behind something else.
Where else “acharon” appears- he will riseיָקוּםyakum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakum” appears- the dustעָפָרafar
dust
Dry, loose earth, fine as dust; God formed man from it.
Where else “afar” appears
Translation note
“My redeemer”: in Hebrew, goel. He was the close relative who had the duty to come to the defense of one of his own: to buy back his land, free him from slavery, or uphold his cause (Leviticus 25:25, 47-49; Ruth 4). The same title is given to God as the redeemer of his people (Isaiah 41:14; 44:6). Job affirms that his redeemer lives and that at the last he will rise on the dust; shortly before, he spoke of his “witness in the heavens” (16:19). “At the last”: it can also be understood as “the last one.”
The context
24that with a stylus of iron and lead forever in the rock they were carved.
25 · This verse (above)
26And after this my skin has been destroyed, from my flesh I will see Eloah;