Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
In Context
22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
Cross References
Ruth 1:13If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
Job 2:5But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Psalms 38:2I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.
Romans 12:15Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.
Hebrews 13:3Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.
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 →