Job 19:28

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

Job 19:22

“Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

1 Kings 14:13

All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Psalm 69:26

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Seeing, etc

Bible References

Why

Job 19:22
“Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Psalm 69:26
For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

Seeing, etc

1 Kings 14:13
All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.