Job 19:28

World English Bible (2000)

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because 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, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
  • 1 Kgs 14:13 : 13 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

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