Related Verses: Job 19:25-27

Leading Question: What light does the Old Testament context throw on the word “Redeemer” and what it might have meant to Job?

This week’s lesson focuses on the famous “Redeemer” passage in Job 19:25-27, given here first in classic KJV and then in the NRSV translation:

Job 19:25-27 (KJV): For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, ...