23 How I wish that someone would remember my words

and record them in a book!

24 Or with a chisel carve my words in stone

and write them so that they would last for ever.n

25 But I know there is someone in heaven

who will come at last to my defence.

26 Even after my skin is eaten by disease,

while still in this bodyo I will see God.p

27 I will see him with my own eyes,

and he will not be a stranger.

My courage failed because you said,