28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
28 If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'
28 "If you're thinking, 'How can we get through to him, get him to see that his trouble is all his own fault?'
28 If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?'-- Since the root of the matter is found in me,
28 "How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, 'It's his own fault'?
17 They said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?'
17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
17 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
17 They told God, 'Get lost! What good is God Almighty to us?'
17 They said to God, 'Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?'
17 For they said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?'
(Read Job 22:15-20)
Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 19:28
Commentary on Job 19:23-29
(Read Job 19:23-29)
The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come; he comforted himself with the expectation of these. Job was assured, that this Redeemer of sinners from the yoke of Satan and the condemnation of sin, was his Redeemer, and expected salvation through him; and that he was a living Redeemer, though not yet come in the flesh; and that at the last day he would appear as the Judge of the world, to raise the dead, and complete the redemption of his people. With what pleasure holy Job enlarges upon this! May these faithful sayings be engraved by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts. We are all concerned to see that the root of the matter be in us. A living, quickening, commanding principle of grace in the heart, is the root of the matter; as necessary to our religion as the root of the tree, to which it owes both its fixedness and its fruitfulness. Job and his friends differed concerning the methods of Providence, but they agreed in the root of the matter, the belief of another world.