Verse Comparison: Job 19:28
American Standard Version
If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
Amplified® Bible
If you say, How we will pursue him! [and continue to persecute me with the claim] that the root [cause] of all these [afflictions] is found in me,
Contemporary English Version
My friends, you think up ways to blame and torment me, saying I brought it on myself.
Darby English Version
If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,
Good News Bible
"How can we torment him?" You looked for some excuse to attack me.
King James Version
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
New American Standard Bible
"If you say, `How shall we persecute him?' And `What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
New International Version
"If you say, 'How we will hound him,
since the root of the trouble lies in him, '
New King James Version
If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’—
Since the root of the matter is found in me,
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?'
Revised Standard Version
If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him';
Young's Literal Translation
But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
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