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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 19:21

Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Blasphemy;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   God;   God's;   Hand, Divine;   Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Mercy, Merciful;   Pity;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Pity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,for God’s hand has struck me.
Hebrew Names Version
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
King James Version
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
English Standard Version
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
New Century Version
Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.
New English Translation
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
Amplified Bible
"Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has touched me.
New American Standard Bible
"Pity me, pity me, you friends of mine, For the hand of God has struck me.
World English Bible
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the hand of God has smitten me.
Berean Standard Bible
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Contemporary English Version
My friends, I beg you for pity! God has made me his target.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!
Darby Translation
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.
George Lamsa Translation
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has been against me.
Good News Translation
You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.
Lexham English Bible
"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.
Literal Translation
Pity me! Pity me, you my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Haue pite vpon me, haue pite vpon me (o ye my frendes) for the hande of the LORDE hath touched me.
American Standard Version
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Bible in Basic English
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
King James Version (1611)
Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.
English Revised Version
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Haue ye merci on me, haue ye merci on me, nameli, ye my frendis; for the hond of the Lord hath touchid me.
Update Bible Version
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
New King James Version
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
New Living Translation
"Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
New Life Bible
Have pity on me. Have pity on me, O you my friends. For the hand of God has hit me.
New Revised Standard
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
Revised Standard Version
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Young's Literal Translation
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
THE MESSAGE
"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?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.

Contextual Overview

8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest; 9 My glory - from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head; 10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope; 11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries; 12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent; 13 My Brethren - from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me; 14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me; 15 Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes; 16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him; 17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;

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

Genesis 4:7
Shall it not, if thou do right, be lifted up? But if thou do not right, at the entrance a sin-bearer is lying, - Unto thee, moreover, shall be his longing, though, thou, rule over him.
Genesis 12:2
That I may make thee into a great nation, And bless thee and make great thy name, And become thou a blessing;
Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there are fifty righteous, in the midst of the city, Wilt thou really sweep away, and not spare the place, for the sake of the fifty righteous which are therein?
Genesis 19:8
Behold, I pray you, I, have two daughters who have not known man, I must needs now bring, them, forth unto you, and do ye to them, as may be good in your eyes, - Only to these men, ye may do nothing; for on this account, have they come under the shade of my roof.
Genesis 19:9
And they said, Stand back, And they said, This one, by himself, hath come in to sojourn and must always be acting the judge, Now, will we do more wickedly to thee, than to them. So they pressed sere upon the man - upon Lot - exceedingly, and drew near to break open the door.
Genesis 19:15
But as soon as, the dawn had sprung up, the messengers hastened Lot saying, - Arise! take thy wife and thy two daughters that are at hand, lest thou be swept away in the punishment of the city.
Genesis 19:16
And he lingered - so the men laid hold of his hand and of the hand of his wife and of the hand of his two daughters, in the tenderness of Yahweh towards him, - and they brought him out and led him forth outside the city.
Psalms 34:15
The eyes of Yahweh, are towards the righteous, And, his ears, towards their cry for help:
Psalms 102:17
Hath turned towards the prayer of the destitute, And not despised their prayer,
Psalms 145:19
The desire of them who revere him, will he fulfil, and, their cry, will he hear, and will save 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.


 
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