But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
All Commentaries on Job 19:28 Go To Job 19
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Let us. Septuagint, "Why do we contend against him? and the root of the word (reason) we shall find in him. "He provokes us to speak thus. (Haydock)
Hebrew reads, "in me. "But the Chaldean, "have him "as the sequel requires; unless Job speak this in his own person. I am ready to answer you; or, have you really discovered in me any grounds for your virulent attack? (Calmet)