23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth  grant that in a book they may be graven?
         
                                
                        24 With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may  be hewn.
         
                                
                        25 That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last,  For the dust he doth rise.
         
                                
                        26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my  flesh I see God:
         
                                
                        27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and  not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
         
                                
                        28 But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?` And the root of  the matter hath been found in me.
         
                                
                        29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the  punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a  judgment.