Job 19:28

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

Majority Standard Bible

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

27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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Cross References

Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

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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