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Job Warns His Friends

28 “You say,
    ‘We will persecute him!
    The root of the problem is found in him.’
29 Fear death,
    because your anger is punishable by death.
        Then you will know there is a judge.”

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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