the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Job 19:21
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Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,for God’s hand has struck me.
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
"Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has touched me.
"Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine, For the hand of God has struck me.
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the hand of God has smitten me.
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
My friends, I beg you for pity! God has made me his target.
"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
"Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has been against me.
You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.
"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.
Pity me! Pity me, you my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.
Haue pite vpon me, haue pite vpon me (o ye my frendes) for the hande of the LORDE hath touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Haue ye merci on me, haue ye merci on me, nameli, ye my frendis; for the hond of the Lord hath touchid me.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
"Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
Have pity on me. Have pity on me, O you my friends. For the hand of God has hit me.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
"Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me! Do you have to be hard on me, too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?
"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
have pity: Job 6:14, Romans 12:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Hebrews 13:3
the hand: Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Job 2:10, Job 6:4, Psalms 38:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:3 - touch Ruth 1:13 - the hand Ruth 2:9 - touch thee Job 2:11 - friends Job 4:5 - it toucheth Job 6:9 - that he would Job 21:5 - be astonished Job 32:13 - God Psalms 6:2 - my Psalms 69:20 - comforters Psalms 69:26 - For Psalms 109:16 - persecuted Ecclesiastes 4:1 - they had Jeremiah 15:5 - For who Lamentations 3:1 - the man Acts 13:11 - hand
Cross-References
If you do things well, I will accept you, but if you do not do them well, sin is ready to attack you. Sin wants you, but you must rule over it."
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
What if there are fifty good people in that city? Will you still destroy it? Surely you will save the city for the fifty good people living there.
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
The men around the house answered, "Move out of the way!" Then they said to each other, "This man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us what to do!" They said to Lot, "We will do worse things to you than to them." They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door.
At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said, "Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will not be destroyed when the city is punished."
But Lot delayed. So the two men took the hands of Lot, his wife, and his two daughters and led them safely out of the city. So the Lord was merciful to Lot and his family.
The Lord sees the good people and listens to their prayers.
He will answer the prayers of the needy; he will not reject their prayers.
He gives those who respect him what they want. He listens when they cry, and he saves them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,.... Instead of calumny and censure, his case called for compassion; and the phrase is doubled, to denote the vehemence of his affliction, the ardency of his soul, the anguish of his spirits, the great distress he was in, and the earnest desire he had to have pity shown him; and in which he may be thought not only to make a request to his friends for it, but to give them a reproof for want of it:
O ye my friends; as they once showed themselves to be, and now professed they were; and since they did, pity might be reasonably expected from them; for even common humanity, and much more friendship, required it of them, that they should be pitiful and courteous, and put on bowels of mercy and kindness, and commiserate his sad estate, and give him all the succour, relief, and comfort they could, see Job 6:14;
for the hand of God has touched me; his afflicting hand, which is a mighty one; it lay hard and heavy upon him, and pressed him sore; for though it was but a touch of his hand, it was more than he could well bear; for it was the touch of the Almighty, who "toucheth the hills, and they smoke", Psalms 104:32; and if he lays his hand ever so lightly on houses of clay, which have their foundation in the dust, they cannot support under the weight of it, since they are crushed before the moth, or as easily as a moth is crushed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have pity on me - A tender, pathetic cry for sympathy. “God has afflicted me, and stripped me of all my comforts, and I am left a poor, distressed, forsaken man. I make my appeal to you, my friends, and entreat you to have pity; to sympathize with me, and to sustain me by the words of consolation.” One would have supposed that these words would have gone to the heart, and that we should hear no more of their bitter reproofs. But far otherwise was the fact.
The hand of God hath touched me - Hath smitten me; or is heavy upon me. The meaning is, that he had been subjected to great calamities by God, and that it was right to appeal now to his friends, and to expect their sympathy and compassion. On the usual meaning of the word here rendered, “hath touched” (נגעה nâga‛âh from נגע nâga‛ ), see the notes at Isaiah 53:4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 19:21. Have pity upon me — The iteration here strongly indicates the depth of his distress, and that his spirit was worn down with the length and severity of his suffering.
