Job 19:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ If ye say, How we will persecute him! Seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

Common English Bible

²⁸ You say, “How will we pursue him so that the root of the matter can be found in him?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Why then do you now say: "Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

Job 19:28 Cross References

1 Kings 14:13

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave: because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:29

Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgement.

Psalm 69:26

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.