Job 19:22

Good News Translation

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

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?

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 the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness. ⁹ He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation. ¹⁰ He batters me from every side. He uproots my hope and leaves me to wither and die. ¹¹ God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy. ¹² He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent. ¹³ God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me; ¹⁴ my relatives and friends are gone. ¹⁵ Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner. ¹⁶ When I call a servant, he doesn't answer— even when I beg him to help me. ¹⁷ My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near 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 around and saw that the whole Jordan Valley, all the way to Zoar, had plenty of water, like the Garden of the Lord or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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

Genesis 19:1
When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them

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

Genesis 19:25
and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.

Genesis 19:28
He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.

Exodus 32:10
Now, don't try to stop me. I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation."

Deuteronomy 9:14
Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'

Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith, weeping as they go; some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly.

Isaiah 65:8
The Lord says, "No one destroys good grapes; instead, they make wine with them. Neither will I destroy all my people—I will save those who serve me.

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?