New English Translation
Job 19:22
22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?
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 bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me. Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh? 23“O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, 24that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
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לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:22
- Job 10:16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.
- Job 16:13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
- Psalms 69:26For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
- Job 2:5But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
- Job 31:31if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –
- Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”
- Micah 3:3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a 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
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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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