And though after my skin [worms] destroy this
[body]
Meaning not, that after his skin was wholly consumed now, which
was almost gone, there being scarce any left but the skin of his
teeth, ( Job 19:20
) ; the worms in his ulcers would consume what was left of his
body, which scarce deserved the name of a body, and therefore he
points to it, and calls it "this", without saying what it was;
but that when he should be entirely stripped of his skin in the
grave, then rottenness and worms would strip him also of all the
rest of his flesh and his bones; by which he expresses the utter
consumption of his body by death, and after it in the grave; and
nevertheless, though so it would be, he was assured of his
resurrection from the dead:
yet in my flesh shall I see God:
he believed, that though he should die and moulder into dust in
the grave, yet he should rise again, and that in true flesh, not
in an aerial celestial body, but in a true body, consisting of
flesh, blood, and bones, which spirits have not, and in the same
flesh or body he then had, his own flesh and body, and not
another's; and so with his fleshly or corporeal eyes see God,
even his living Redeemer, in human nature; who, as he would stand
upon the earth in that nature, in the fulness of time, and obtain
redemption for him, so he would in the latter day appear again,
raise him from the dead, and take him to himself, to behold his
glory to all eternity: or "out of my flesh" F6, out of
my fleshly eyes; from thence and with those shall I behold God
manifest in the flesh, my incarnate God; and if Job was one of
those saints that rose when Christ did, as some say F7, he saw
him in the flesh and with his fleshly eyes.