²³ “O that my words were written down!
    O that they were inscribed in a book!
²⁴ O that with an iron pen and with lead
    they were engraved on a rock forever!
²⁵ For I know that my vindicator^[a] lives
    and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;
²⁶ and after my skin has been destroyed,
    then in my flesh I shall see God,
²⁷ whom I shall see on my side,
    and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
    My heart faints within me!