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THE MESSAGE
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 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, 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 looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting at the city gate. He saw them and got up to welcome them, bowing before them and said, "Please, my friends, come to my house and stay the night. Wash up. You can rise early and be on your way refreshed." They said, "No, we'll sleep in the street."
But the two men reached out and pulled Lot inside the house, locking the door. Then they struck blind the men who were trying to break down the door, both leaders and followers, leaving them groping in the dark.
Oh, how I grieve for Moab! Refugees stream to Zoar and then on to Eglath-shelishiyah. Up the slopes of Luhith they weep; on the road to Horonaim they cry their loss. The springs of Nimrim are dried up— grass brown, buds stunted, nothing grows. They leave, carrying all their possessions on their backs, everything they own, Making their way as best they can across Willow Creek to safety. Poignant cries reverberate all through Moab, Gut-wrenching sobs as far as Eglaim, heart-racking sobs all the way to Beer-elim. The banks of the Dibon crest with blood, but God has worse in store for Dibon: A lion—a lion to finish off the fugitives, to clean up whoever's left in the land.
God 's Message: "But just as one bad apple doesn't ruin the whole bushel, there are still plenty of good apples left. So I'll preserve those in Israel who obey me. I won't destroy the whole nation. I'll bring out my true children from Jacob and the heirs of my mountains from Judah. My chosen will inherit the land, my servants will move in. The lush valley of Sharon in the west will be a pasture for flocks, And in the east, the valley of Achor, a place for herds to graze. These will be for the people who bothered to reach out to me, who wanted me in their lives, who actually bothered to look for me.
"Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, and the people in Jahaz will hear the cries. They will hear them all the way from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.
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?
