“But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?”
"If you say, 'How we will pursue him! And the root of the matter is found in him!'" Job quotes the friends' likely response. They will see his words as evidence of guilt—he persists in asserting innocence, thus proving his delusion. Yet Job speaks this in anticipation, as if to preempt their condemnation.
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