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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 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 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 all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
All these kings went to war against several other kings: Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and then closed the door.
and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Jordan Valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
So now do not stop me. I am so angry with them that I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants a great nation."
Get away so that I may destroy them and make the whole world forget who they are. Then I will make another nation from you that will be bigger and stronger than they are."
My heart cries with sorrow for Moab. Its people run away to Zoar for safety; they run to Eglath Shelishiyah. People are going up the mountain road to Luhith, crying as they go. People are going on the road to Horonaim, crying over their destruction.
This is what the Lord says: "When there is juice left in the grapes, people do not destroy them, because they know there is good left in them. So I will do the same thing to my servants— I will not completely destroy them.
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?
