Job 19:28 KJV — MannaFest

Job 19:28

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

KJV

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DBT

If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

ASV

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

WEB

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

YLT

But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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Cross-references

8 verses on the floor

Matthew 13:21
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Mark 4:17
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
Psalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. Job's friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A living, quickening, commanding, principle of grace in the heart, is the root of the matter, as necessary to our religion as the root to the tree, to which it owes both its fixedness and its fruitfulness. Love to God and our brethren, faith in Christ, hatred of sin--these are the root of the matter; other things are but leaves in comparison with these.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Rather, "ye will then (when the Vindicator cometh) say, Why," &c. root . . . in me--The root of pious integrity, which was the matter at issue, whether it could be in one so afflicted, is found in me.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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