There is a certain sense in which a Christian's appraisal of this life is nested in his knowledge that what occurs down here on Earth is not the final scene of our drama. In chapter 19, Job acknowledges his current misery and suffering, but affirms a faith in a rightness that transcends death.
25 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, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job's testimony of a resurrection is couched in legal terms. There is a hint, not just of a physical life after death, but of a judgment and a reckoning where hopes to be vindicated and justified.
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