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 for ever!
²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives,
   and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
²⁶ and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
   then in my flesh I shall see God,
²⁷ whom I shall see on my side,
   and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
   My heart faints within me!