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Job 19:28
Job 19:28 is verse 28 of Job chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
Many Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts with me
King James Version
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
World English Bible
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
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Job 19:26–29 · Berean Standard Bible
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
27 I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
29 then 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
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
1 Kings 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.