Job 19:28

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If you say, 'Why should we persecute him?' since the root of the matter is found in me,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why do you pursue me as God does and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Let their encampments be desolate; may no one dwell in their tents.
  • 1 Kgs 14:13 : 13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave. He is the only one in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, found something good within the house of Jeroboam.

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