Job 19:28
If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
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Referenced Verses
- Job 19:22 : 22 Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
- Ps 69:26 : 26 For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
- 1 Kgs 14:13 : 13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the LORD God of Israel found anything good.
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