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

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”