The Book of Job, Chapter 19, Verse 28

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.

King James Version

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

American Standard Version

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

New English Translation

If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

World English Bible

If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.