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Job 19:22
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Why do you persecute me as God does?Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you chase me as God does? Haven't you hurt me enough?
Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
"Why do you persecute me as God does? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me, as God? & are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God does,And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Hasn't he already done enough? Why do you join the attack?
Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God does? Don't you get tired of hurting me?
Why do you also persecute me like God, and you are not satisfied with the hurt of my flesh?
Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?
Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me, as God does , and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Seynge God persecuteth me, wil ye vexe me also? Haue ye not yet ynough of the trouble of my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God [doth] and are not satisfied with my fleshe?
Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Whi pursuen ye me, as God pursueth; and ben fillid with my fleischis?
Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven't you chewed me up enough?
Why do you make it hard for me as God does? Have I not suffered enough to please you?
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
"Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Contextual Overview
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
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Mitzrayim, as you go to Tzo`ar.
that they made war with Bera, king of Sedom, and with Birsha, king of `Amorah, Shin'av, king of Admah, and Shem'ever, king of Tzevoyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Tzo`ar).
The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the eretz,
But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
My heart cries out for Mo'av; her nobles [flee] to Tzo`ar, to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah: for by the ascent of Luchit with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonayim they raise up a cry of destruction.
Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may 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?
