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Job 19:22

Why do you make it hard for me as God does? Have I not suffered enough to please you?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;  

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?
Good News Translation
Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?
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 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 He has built a wall in my way so that I cannot pass. And He has put darkness on my paths. 9 He has taken my honor from me, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone. He has pulled up my hope like a tree. 11 He has made His anger burn against me, and thinks of me as one who fights against Him. 12 His armies come together and build a path against me. They camp around my tent. 13 "He has taken my brothers far away from me and my friends have all left me. 14 My brothers have left me, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who live in my house and my women servants think of me as a stranger. I am like one from another country in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer. I have to beg him. 17 My breath smells bad to my wife, and I am hated by my own brothers.

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 and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 14:2
that they made war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He put his face to the ground
Genesis 19:10
But the two men put out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
Genesis 19:25
He destroyed those cities, and all the valley, and all the people of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley. And he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke from a place where there is much fire.
Exodus 32:10
Now let Me alone, so My anger may be against them and I may destroy them. But I will make you into a great nation."
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let Me alone, so I may destroy them and destroy their name from under heaven. I will make you into a nation that will be greater and stronger than they.'
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out for Moab. His men have run away as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up the hill of Luhith crying. On the road to Horonaim they cry in sorrow over their being destroyed.
Isaiah 65:8
The Lord says, "New wine is found in the grapes, and one says, ‘Do not destroy them, for there is still some good in them.' I will act in the same way for My servants, and 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.

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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?


 
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