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

20I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. 21“Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God’s hand has struck me down. Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh? 23“I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll. 24I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.

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 10:16Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me.
• Job 16:13and his archers surrounded me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy and spills my blood on the ground.
• Psalms 69:26They persecute the one you have struck, and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.
• Job 2:5But stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bones. I bet he’ll curse you to your face.”
• Job 31:31“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….
• Isaiah 51:23I will put it in the hands of those who made you suffer. They said to you, “Lie down so that we can walk over you.” So you made your back like the ground and like a street for them to cross.
• Micah 3:3You eat my people’s flesh. You strip off their skin. You break their bones to pieces. You chop them up like meat for a pot, like stew meat for 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
• 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