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 on a rockWith an iron pen and lead, forever!
25. For I know that my Redeemer lives,And He shall stand at last on the earth;
26. And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,That in my flesh I shall see God,
27. Whom I shall see for myself,And my eyes shall 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,