English Standard Version
Job 19:21
21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Job 19:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- New International Version (NIV)“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me.
Context of Job 19:21
19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! 22Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? 23"Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Read all of Job 19Job 19:21 word by word
חָנֻּ֬נִי חָנֻּ֣נִי אַתֶּ֣ם רֵעָ֑י כִּ֥י יַד־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נָ֣גְעָה בִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:21
- Job 6:14"He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
- 1 Corinthians 12:26If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
- Hebrews 13:3Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
- Job 1:11But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."
- Job 2:5But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Psalms 38:2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
Commentaries on Job 19:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Have 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Have 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…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. 21the hand of God has struck me: God allowed Satan to harm Job (1:11; 2:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. When God had made him such a piteous spectacle, his friends should spare him the additional persecution of their cruel speeches.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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