Job 19:28

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?seeing…: or, and what root of matter is found in me?

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me.

YLT

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

DBY

If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

DRC

Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

GNV

But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.

JPS

If ye say: 'How we will persecute him!' seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;

LXXE

But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and so find the root of the matter in him?

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

LXX-Br

Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρεῖτε, τί ἐροῦμεν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ῥίζαν λόγου εὑρήσομεν ἐν αὐτῷ;

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• 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.

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