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 cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23O that my words were now written! O that they were printed in a book! 24That they were engraved with an iron pen in lead in the rock for ever!

Job 19:22 word by word

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

• persecuteרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• Godאֵל'êl · GodH410
• satisfiedשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320

Cross-references for Job 19:22

• Job 10:16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
• Job 16:13His archers surround me, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
• Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
• Job 2:5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
• Job 31:31If the men of my tent have not said, O that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
• Isaiah 51:23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
• Micah 3:3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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