^{23 Ref} If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

^{24 Ref} And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

^{25 Ref} But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

^{26 Ref} And ... without my flesh I will see God;

^{27 Ref} Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.