Job 19:22

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

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

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?

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?

Bible in Basic English
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

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

⁸He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. ⁹He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. ¹⁰He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree. ¹¹His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies. ¹²His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent. ¹³He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. ¹⁴My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. ¹⁶I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth. ¹⁷My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

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 looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:2
went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 19:1
The two angels entered Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground,

Genesis 19:10
But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Genesis 19:25
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they."

Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah; with weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 65:8
This is what the LORD says: "As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, 'Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,' so I will act on behalf of My servants: I will not destroy 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.

p Ben Gersom.

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?