New Revised Standard Version
If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him’;

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you think up ways to blame and torment me, saying I brought it on myself.

New American Bible
But you who say, “How shall we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in him?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

Why

Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Psalm 69:26 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

seeing, etc.

1 Kings 14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

100 MSS.)