The Meaning of Job 19:28 Explained

Job 19:28

KJV: But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

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

Darby: If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when 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;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 19:28 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.
Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

1  Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6  shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21  He craves pity
23  He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:28 mean?

If you should say [with] what shall we persecute him since the root of the matter is found in me
כִּ֣י תֹ֭אמְרוּ מַה־ נִּרְדָּף־ ל֑וֹ וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ דָּ֝בָ֗ר נִמְצָא־ בִֽי

תֹ֭אמְרוּ  you  should  say 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
מַה־  [with]  what 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
נִּרְדָּף־  shall  we  persecute 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common plural
Root: רָדַף  
Sense: to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after.
וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ  since  the  root 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: שֹׁרֶשׁ  
Sense: root.
דָּ֝בָ֗ר  of  the  matter 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: דָּבָר  
Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
נִמְצָא־  is  found 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: מָצָא  
Sense: to find, attain to.
בִֽי  in  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular

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