Job 19:21
Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Leeser Tanakh
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
20To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.
22Why will ye persecute me as God [hath done], and will never be satisfied with my flesh?
Cross References
Ruth 1:13Would ye wait in hopes for them till they were grown? would ye debar yourselves for them so as not to become the wives of any man? not so, my daughters; for I feel much more bitter pain than you; because the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
Job 2:5But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and [see] whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Psalms 38:2(38:3) For thy arrows have penetrated into me, and thy hand presseth down upon me.
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 →