New Living Translation
Job 19:28
28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
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
26And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! 27I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought! “How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’? 29You should fear punishment yourselves, for your attitude deserves punishment. Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”
Read all of Job 19Job 19:28 word by word
כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:28
- Job 19:22Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?
- Psalms 69:26To the one you have punished, they add insult to injury; they add to the pain of those you have hurt.
- 1 Kings 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the Lord, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family 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
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