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Job 19:28 KJV
Job · chapter 19 · verse 28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?Job 19:28 · King James Version
Job 19:28 in context
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- persecuterâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- matterdâbâra wordH1697 →
- rootsheresha rootH8328 →
- sayʼâmarto sayH559 →
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In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 23-29