Job 19:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you should say, 'Why do 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 persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have 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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    22 Why do you persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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    73%

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

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  • Job 19:27
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    27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

  • Job 13:24-26
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    24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

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  • Jer 20:10
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  • Job 14:3
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    3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

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    12 But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

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    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

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    19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • Job 21:27-28
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    27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you wrongfully imagine against me.

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    3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.

  • Ps 69:26
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    26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

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    20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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  • Job 18:3-4
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    70%

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    2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

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    39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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    10 Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

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    70%

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