Job 19:28 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"You say, 'We will persecute him! The root of the problem is found in him.'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing 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;

BBE:

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Job 19:28 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the {s} matter is found in me?
(s) Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there was a deeper consideration that is, the trial of his faith and patience, and so to be an example for others.

WES:

19:28 Therefore - Because my faith and hope are in God. The root - The root denotes, a root of true religion. And the root of all true religion is living faith.

MHC:

19:23-29 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 life of the world to come; he comforted himself with the expectation of these. Job was assured, that this Redeemer of sinners from the yoke of Satan and the condemnation of sin, was his Redeemer, and expected salvation through him; and that he was a living Redeemer, though not yet come in the flesh; and that at the last day he would appear as the Judge of the world, to raise the dead, and complete the redemption of his people. With what pleasure holy Job enlarges upon this! May these faithful sayings be engraved by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts. We are all concerned to see that the root of the matter be in us. A living, quickening, commanding principle of grace in the heart, is the root of the matter; as necessary to our religion as the root of the tree, to which it owes both its fixedness and its fruitfulness. Job and his friends differed concerning the methods of Providence, but they agreed in the root of the matter, the belief of another world.

CONC:

Case Clearly Cruel Hound Lies Matter Persecute Pretext Pursue Root Seeing Sin Trouble

Case Clearly Cruel Find Found How Lies Matter Persecute Pretext Pursue Root Sin Trouble

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