Sermon for March 24th, 2019

Job 19:17-27

17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. 18 Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me. 19 All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. 20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! 22 Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

23 “O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! 24 O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! 25 For I know that my Redeemer[b] lives, and that at the last he[c] will stand upon the earth;[d] 26 and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in[e] my flesh I shall see God,[f] 27 whom I shall see on my side,[g] and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!