Job 19:22

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

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

New Revised Standard
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

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 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

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
So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered, - before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.

Genesis 14:2
that they made war, with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, - Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela - the same, is Zoar.

Genesis 19:1
So the two messengers went in towards Sodom at eventide, Lot, being seated in the gate of Sodom, - so Lot beheld and rose up to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 19:10
And the men thrust forth their hand, and brought Lot in unto them into the house - and, the door, they closed:

Genesis 19:25
so he overthrew these cities, and all the circuit, - and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the produce of the ground.

Genesis 19:28
and he looked out over the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and over all the face of the land of the circuit, and beheld and lo! the smoke of the land went up, like the smoke of a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
Now, therefore, let me alone, that mine anger may kindle upon them and that I may consume them, and may make of thee

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and wipe out their name from under the heavens, - and make thee into a nation stronger and more in number than they.

Isaiah 15:5
Mine own heart, for Moab continueth to make outcry, Her fugitive, as far as Zoar, is like a heifer of three years; For the accent of Luhith, with weeping, they ascend, For by the way of Horonaim - an outcry of destruction, they excite;

Isaiah 65:8
Thus, saith Yahweh - As, new wine, is found, in the cluster, And one saith, Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it, So, will I do for the sake of ray servants, That I may not destroy the whole nation ;

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?