Job 19:21

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.

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!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken 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 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness. ⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. ¹¹ His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy. ¹² His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. ¹³ He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. ¹⁴ My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me. ¹⁵ They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. ¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth. ¹⁷ My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

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
If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 18:24
If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

Genesis 19:9
But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

Genesis 19:15
And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.

Genesis 19:16
And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.

Psalms 34:15
(33-16) The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

Psalms 102:17
(101-18) He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Psalms 145:19
(144-19) He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and 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.