Job 19:22

Bible in Basic English

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why do you persecute me as God does?Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Hebrew Names Version
Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

King James Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

English Standard Version
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

New Century Version
Why do you chase me as God does? Haven't you hurt me enough?

New English Translation
Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

Amplified Bible
"Why do you persecute me as God does? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

New American Standard Bible
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

World English Bible
Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Why do ye persecute me, as God? & are not satisfied with my flesh?

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

Berean Standard Bible
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Contemporary English Version
Hasn't he already done enough? Why do you join the attack?

Complete Jewish Bible
Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?

Darby Translation
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Easy-to-Read Version
Why do you persecute me as God does? Don't you get tired of hurting me?

George Lamsa Translation
Why do you also persecute me like God, and you are not satisfied with the hurt of my flesh?

Good News Translation
Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?

Lexham English Bible
Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Literal Translation
Why do you pursue me, as God does , and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Seynge God persecuteth me, wil ye vexe me also? Haue ye not yet ynough of the trouble of my flesh?

American Standard Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

King James Version (1611)
Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Why do ye persecute me as God [doth] and are not satisfied with my fleshe?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

English Revised Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi pursuen ye me, as God pursueth; and ben fillid with my fleischis?

Update Bible Version
Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

New King James Version
Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

New Living Translation
Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven't you chewed me up enough?

New Life Bible
Why do you make it hard for me as God does? Have I not suffered enough to please you?

New Revised Standard
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Revised Standard Version
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

Young's Literal Translation
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Contextual Overview

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. ⁹ He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. ¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters. ¹² His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine. ¹³ He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. ¹⁴ My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. ¹⁵ I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. ¹⁶ At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

persecute: Job 10:16, Job 16:13, Job 16:14, Psalms 69:26

and are not: Job 2:5, Job 31:31, Isaiah 51:23, Micah 3:3

Reciprocal: Job 14:22 - his flesh Job 19:28 - Why Psalms 27:2 - to Psalms 69:20 - comforters Psalms 109:16 - persecuted Ecclesiastes 4:1 - they had

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Genesis 14:2
They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

Genesis 19:1
And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

Genesis 19:10
But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

Genesis 19:25
And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

Genesis 19:28
And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

Exodus 32:10
Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

Isaiah 15:5
My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 65:8
This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Why do ye persecute me as God,.... As if they were in his stead, or had the same power and authority over him, who is a sovereign Being, and does what he pleases with his creatures, and is not accountable to any for what he does; but this is not the case of men, nor are they to imitate God in all things; what he does is not in all things a warrant to do the like, or to be pleaded and followed as a precedent by them; they should be merciful as he is merciful, but they are not to afflict and distress his people because he does, and which he does for wise ends and reasons; for such a conduct is resented by him, see Zechariah 1:15. God persecuted or pursued and followed Job with one affliction after another, and hunted him as a fierce lion does his prey, Job 10:16; but this was not a reason why they should do the same. Some read the words, "why do ye persecute me as those?" p you that profess to be my friends, why do ye persecute me as those before mentioned, as those wicked men? or "with those", with such reproaches and calumnies; but the original will not bear it:

and are not satisfied with my flesh? It was not enough that he was afflicted in his body, and his flesh was ulcerated from head to feet, and was clothed with worms and clods of dust; they were not content that his children, which were his own flesh, were tore away from him, and destroyed; and that his substance, which is sometimes called the flesh of men, see Micah 3:3; was devoured, and he was spoiled and plundered of it; but they sought to afflict his mind, to wound his spirit, by their heavy charges and accusations, by their calumnies and reproaches, and hard censures of him; he suggests, that they dealt with him more cruelly than savage beasts, who, when they have got their prey, are satisfied with their flesh; but they, who would be thought to be his friends, were not satisfied with his.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Why do ye persecute me as God? - As God has done. That is, without giving me any reason for it; accusing me of crimes without proof, and condeming me without mitigation. That there is here an improper reflection on God, will be apparent to all. It accords with what Job frequently expresses where he speaks of him as judging him severly, and is on of the instances which prove that he was not entirely perfect.

And are not satisfied with my flesh - That is, are not contented that my “body” is subjected to inexpressible torment, and is wholly wasting away, but add to this the torment of the soul. Why is it not enough that my “body” is thus tormented without adding the severer tortures of the mind?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 19:22. Why do ye persecute me as God — Are not the afflictions which God sends enough? Do ye not see that I have as much as I can bear? When the papists were burning Dr. Taylor at Oxford, while wrapped in the flames, one of the true sons of the Church took a stick out of the faggots, and threw it at his head, and split open his face. To whom he calmly said, Man, why this wrong? Do not I suffer enough?

And are not satisfied with my flesh? — Will ye persecute my soul, while God is persecuting my body? Is it not enough that my body is destroyed? Why then labour to torment my mind?