Job 19:22
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
In Context
21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!
Cross References
Job 10:16And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
Job 16:11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
Job 31:31If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
Psalms 69:27\69:26\Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
Micah 3:3Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my… Read the whole commentary →