Job 19:28

Job 19:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
• New International Version (NIV)“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,’
• English Standard Version (ESV)If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'
• New King James Version (NKJV)If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’— Since the root of the matter is found in me,

Context of Job 19:28

26Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I will see God, 27Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, And whom my eyes will see, and not another. My heart faints within me! If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’ 29Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”

Job 19:28 word by word

כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• Ifכִּיkîy · forH3588
• you sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Howמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• persecuteרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• What pretextשֹׁ֫רֶשׁsheresh · rootH8328
• for a caseדָּבָרdâbâr · word: thingH1697
• against him can we findמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672

Cross-references for Job 19:28

• Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
• Psalms 69:26For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself struck, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.
• 1 Kings 14:13Then all Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Commentaries on Job 19:28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28But ye should say - Or, Then ye shall say. Why persecute we him - Or, as Mr. Good, How did we persecute him! Alas! we are now convinced that we did wrong. Seeing the root of the matter - A pure practice, and a sound hope, resting on the solid ground of sound faith, received from God himself. Instead of בי bi, in Me, בי bo, in Him, is the reading of more than one hundred of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and in several of the versions. Seeing the root of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28But ye should say - Noyes renders this, “Since ye say, How may we persecute him, and find grounds of accusation against him?‘” Dr. Good, Then shall ye say, “How did we persecute him?” When the root of the matter is disclosed in me. The Vulgate, “Why now do ye say, let us persecute him, and find ground of accusation - “radicem verbi ” against him?” The Septuagint, “If you also say, What shall we say against him? and what ground of accusation - ̔́ ́ rizan…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. Rather, "ye will then (when the Vindicator cometh) say, Why," &c. root ... in me--The root of pious integrity, which was the matter at issue, whether it could be in one so afflicted, is found in me. Umbreit, with many manuscripts and versions, reads "in him." "Or how found we in him ground of contention."Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings