Job 19:22 “Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my f…”

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

World English Bible

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

American Standard Version

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Geneva Bible 1599

Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Darby Translation

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Young's Literal Translation

Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

Bible in Basic English

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

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Cross references

“persecute”

Psalm 69:26 Job 10:16 Job 16:13 Job 16:14

Psalm 69:26 · BSB

For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

Job 10:16 · BSB

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Job 16:13 · BSB

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14 · BSB

He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

“and are not”

Job 2:5 Job 31:31 Isaiah 51:23 Micah 3:3

Job 2:5 · BSB

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Job 31:31 · BSB

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Isaiah 51:23 · BSB

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

Micah 3:3 · BSB

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Also

Job 13:25 Job 16:11

Job 13:25 · BSB

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Job 16:11 · BSB

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

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