Job 19:28

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

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In The King James Version

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

In Context

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

29Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

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Cross References

Job 19:22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

Matthew Henry on Job 19:24-29

Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. ( b. c. 1520.) 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 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. 28… Read the whole commentary →

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