Job 19:22

Why do you pursue me just as God does, and satiate yourselves with my flesh?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

21Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.

23Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,

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Cross References

Job 10:16And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.

Job 16:11They have opened their mouths against me, and, reproaching me, they have struck me on the cheek; they are nourished by my sufferings.

Job 31:31if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,”

Micah 3:3They have devoured the flesh of my people, and have stripped their skin from over them, and they have shattered and chopped their bones, as if for the kettle, and like flesh in the middle of the 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 →

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