Job 19:28
Good News Translation
"How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me.

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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.)

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. 28Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?29Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.…
Cross References
Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 19:29
Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.

Job 19:27
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