Job 19:28

“If you three men say, ‘What more can we do to cause Job to suffer?’ and if you say, ‘He has caused his own troubles,’

Translation for Translators

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 myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed as I think about that!

29you should be afraid that God will punish [MTY] you; he punishes those like you with whom he is angry; and when that happens, you will know that there is someone who judges people.”

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Cross References

Job 19:22Why do you cause me to suffer like God does? Why do you continue to slander [MET] 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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