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28 “How dare you go on persecuting me,
    saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
29 You should fear punishment yourselves,
    for your attitude deserves punishment.
    Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”

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28 “If you[a] say, ‘How will we persecute him?’
And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,[b]
29 be afraid for yourselves because of the sword,[c]
for wrath brings punishment by[d] the sword,
so that you may know that there is judgment.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:28 Plural
  2. Job 19:28 Or “‘The root of the trouble is found’ in him”
  3. Job 19:29 Literally “from the faces of the sword”
  4. Job 19:29 Literally “of”

28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound(A) him,
    since the root of the trouble lies in him,[a]
29 you should fear the sword yourselves;
    for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,(B)
    and then you will know that there is judgment.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts me
  2. Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty