28 “If you say, ‘How we will hound him,

since the root of the trouble lies in him,’

28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him,

Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

28 “How dare you go on persecuting me,

saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?

28 If you should say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’—

Since the root of the matter is found in me,

28 “If you say, ‘We will continue to trouble Job,

because the problem lies with him,’

28 If ye say, How we will persecute him!

And that the root of the matter is found in me;

28 If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me,

28 “You say, 

‘We will persecute him! 

The root of the problem is found in him.’ 

28 If you say, “How will we pursue him,

since the root of the problem lies with him?”

28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’

and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him’;

28 “If you say, ‘How will we persecute him?’

And ‘The root of the trouble is found’ in me,

28 “You might say, ‘Let’s keep bothering Job.

After all, he’s the cause of all of his suffering.’

28 “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’

And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’