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Job 19:23-27
Job’s Second Reply to Bildad
April 5, 2026
Overview & Insights
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” (Job 19:25)
In chapter 19, Job responds to Bildad’s second speech. Job uses a mixture of lament and legal language to express how abandoned he feels by his friends (19:1–6), by God (19:7–12), and by the full range of people in his community (19:13–19). In the final verses of the chapter, Job pleads with his friends for compassion (19:20–22), he articulates his hope for a redeemer to take up his cause (19:23–27), and he warns his friends that they will have to face God’s judgment (19:28–29). Job does express some faint hope in God, even though his predominant emotion at this time is hopelessness. Only after Yahweh speaks to him in chapters 38–41 will Job’s hope find its fulfillment.
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Commentary
Job 19 Commentary: Job's Answer to Bildad Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik unpacks Job's cry of hope that his Redeemer lives and he will see God.
Commentary on Job 19:23-27a - Working Preacher Working Preacher
The exact passage carries an RCL commentary (Ordinary 32), applied here to the Easter hope of resurrection.
Job 19:23 Commentaries BibleHub
Classic commentators compared verse by verse on the wish that Job's words be inscribed forever.
Background & Word Study
Job 19:23 Interlinear BibleHub
Hebrew text with parsing and Strong's numbers, including the disputed goel (redeemer) in verse 25.
Job 19 | Sefaria Library Sefaria
The Hebrew with JPS translation and linked classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.
Job 19:23-27: I Know That My Redeemer Lives - Enter the Bible Enter the Bible
Luther Seminary background on the passage's leap of hope amid Job's despair.
Summary of the Book of Job | Watch an Overview Video BibleProject
BibleProject's overview frames Job's protest and his longing to see God, the setting of the redeemer speech.
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What is Job's great confession?
In the midst of loss Job cries out that his Redeemer lives and that in his flesh he shall see God, a hope the church sings at Easter.
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