Verse List for JOB 19:28

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) ⇔  You people will say, ‘How will we persecute him? ⇔ After all, the root of the matter is found in him.’

OET-LV If/because you(pl)_will _say[fn] what will _we _persecute to_him/it and_the_root _of the_matter it _has _been _found in_me.

ULT If you say, ‘How we will persecute him! ⇔  For the root of the matter is found in me,’

UST But if you three men still think that you need to accuse me of doing wrong ⇔  because you believe I am responsible for the sufferings I am experiencing,

BSB & MSB If you say, ‘[Let us] persecute him, ⇔  since the root of the matter lies with him,[fn]’

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ ⇔  because the root of the matter is found in me,

NET If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, ⇔ since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

LSV But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me.

FBV You say to yourselves, ‘How can we make him suffer so he can see he is the source of his problems?’

T4T ⇔  “If you three men say, ‘What more can we do to cause Job to suffer?’ ⇔  and if you say, ‘He has caused his own troubles,’

LEB • “If you[fn] say, ‘How will we persecute him?’
• And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,[fn]

BBE If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Moff O you who think to run me down, ⇔  to blame me for my sufferings,

JPS If ye say: 'How we will persecute him!' seeing that 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;

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

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

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

RV If ye say, How we will persecute him! seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;
(If ye/you_all say, How we will persecute him! seeing that the root of the matter is found in me;)

SLT For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in me?

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

KJB-1769 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?[fn]
(But ye/you_all should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?)

KJB-1611 But ye should say, Why persecute we him? [fn]seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.
(But ye/you_all said, why is he persecuted? and there was a deep matter in me.)

Gnva But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me.
(But ye/you_all said, Why is he persecuted? And there was a deep matter in me.)

Cvdl when yee saye: Why do not we persecute him? we haue founde an occasion agaynst him.
(when ye/you_all say: Why do not we persecute him? we have found an occasion against him.)

Wycl Whi therfor seien ye now, Pursue we hym, and fynde we the roote of a word ayens hym?
(Why therefore said ye/you_all now, Pursue we him, and find we the root of a word against him?)

Luth Denn ihr sprechet: Wie wollen wir ihn verfolgen und eine Sache zu ihm finden?
(Because you(pl)/their/her say: How want we/us him/it pursue/follow and a/one matter to/for him find?)

ClVg Quare ergo nunc dicitis: Persequamur eum, et radicem verbi inveniamus contra eum?[fn]
(Why therefore now you(pl)_say: Persequamur him, and root words I_will_findus on_the_contrary him?)

UHB כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑⁠וֹ וְ⁠שֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־בִֽ⁠י׃ ‡

BrLXX Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρεῖτε, τί ἐροῦμεν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ῥίζαν λόγου εὑρήσομεν ἐν αὐτῷ;

BrTr But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and so find the root of the matter in him?