VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 19:28

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

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

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

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

But ye say, ‘Why do we pursue after him?’ And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

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

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.

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