20. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
21. “Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22. Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23. “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24. that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25. I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
26. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
27. I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
28. “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ’