Job 19:28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 19:22 : 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
- 1 Kgs 14:13 : 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 God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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