EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 19:22
22Do not punish me as God is punishing me. You have already caused me to suffer enough.
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 body is now only skin and bones. I still breathe but I am only just alive. 21Please be kind to me, my friends. God has caused me to suffer, so please be kind to me. Do not punish me as God is punishing me. You have already caused me to suffer enough. 23Someone should write down the words that I speak. My words should be written on a scroll. 24If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock, that would be good. Then they would never disappear.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:22 word by word
לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:22
- Job 10:16If I try to be brave, you chase me like a hungry lion. You show your power to hurt me.
- Job 16:13His arrows come from all around me. They go deep into my body and my blood pours out on the ground. But God still does not feel sorry for me.
- Psalms 69:26Do this, because they chase after the people that you have already punished. They talk about the pain of the people that you have hurt.
- Job 2:5So now cause Job to have great pain in his own body. Then he will certainly curse you very strongly.’
- Job 31:31None of the people who work in my house have ever said, “Job has not welcomed strangers into his house. He has not shared his food with them.”
- Isaiah 51:23Instead, I will give it to your cruel enemies to punish them. They said to you, “Lie down on the ground, so that we can walk over you.” You made your backs become like the ground. You became like a street for your enemies to walk on.’
- Micah 3:3You look at my people and you are like butchers. They strip the skin off an animal and they break its bones. Then they cut the meat into pieces and they cook it in a pot. They are happy when they eat the meat.
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
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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
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