Job 19:22

Job 19:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
• New International Version (NIV)Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Context of Job 19:22

20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has touched me. Why do you persecute me as God does? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)? 23“Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll! 24That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

Job 19:22 word by word

לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Why do ye persecuteרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• me as Godאֵל'êl · GodH410
• and are not satisfiedשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• with my fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320

Cross-references for Job 19:22

• Job 10:16Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your marvelous power against me.
• Job 16:13His arrows surround me. He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy; He pours out my gall on the ground.
• Psalms 69:26For they have persecuted him whom You have struck, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.
• Job 2:5But put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh [and severely afflict him]; and he will curse You to Your face.”
• Job 31:31I assure you, the men of my tent have said, ‘Who can find one [in need] who has not been satisfied with his meat’?
• Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, Who have said to you, ‘Lie down so that we may walk over you.’ You have even made your back like the ground And like the street for those who walk over it.”
• Micah 3:3You who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Break their bones And chop them in pieces as for the pot, Like meat in a kettle.”

Commentaries on Job 19:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Why 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Why 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-22Verses 8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22persecute (literally pursue): Job said that God followed him like a someone hunting or a warrior (10:16; 16:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. as God--has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Psa 69:26). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1:15). satisfied with my flesh--It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19:20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Psa 27:2); that is, utter the worst calumnies, as the phrase often means in Arabic.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 19:22

• Blasphemy
• Friendship

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net

Commentaries on Job 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings