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Sunday, July 20th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does? Don't you get tired of hurting me?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;  

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?
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

8 God has blocked my way to keep me from getting through. He has hidden my path in darkness. 9 He took away my honor. He took the crown from my head. 10 He hits me on every side until I am worn out. He takes away my hope. It is like a tree pulled up by the roots. 11 His anger burns against me. He treats me like an enemy. 12 He sends his army to attack me. They build attack towers around me. They camp around my tent. 13 "God has made my brothers hate me. Those who knew me have become strangers. 14 My relatives have left me. My friends have forgotten me. 15 My servant girls and visitors in my home look at me as if I am a stranger and a foreigner. 16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer. Even if I beg for help, he will not answer. 17 My wife hates the smell of my breath. My own brothers hate me.

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
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)
Genesis 14:2
All these kings fought a war against King Bera of Sodom: King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)
Genesis 19:1
That evening the two angels came to the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting near the city gates and saw them. He got up and went to them. He bowed to show respect and said, "Sirs, please come to my house, and I will serve you. There you can wash your feet and stay the night. Then tomorrow you can continue your journey." The angels answered, "No, we will stay the night in the city square."
Genesis 19:10
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and closed the door.
Genesis 19:25
He destroyed the whole valley—all the cities, the people living in the cities, and all the plants in the valley.
Genesis 19:28
Abraham looked down into the valley toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Exodus 32:10
So now let me destroy them in anger. Then I will make a great nation from you."
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me destroy these people completely, so no one will even remember their names. Then I will make another nation from you that is stronger and greater than these people.'
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries, full of sorrow for Moab. Its people run away to Zoar for safety. They run to Eglath Shelishiyah. The people are crying as they go up the road to Luhith. They are crying loudly as they walk on the road to Horonaim.
Isaiah 65:8
The Lord says, "When there is new wine in the grapes, people squeeze out the wine. But they don't completely destroy the grapes because the grapes can still be used. I will do the same thing to my servants. I will not destroy them completely.

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?


 
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