Job 19:22
Why do you pursue me as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
In Context
21Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God has struck against me.
23Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
Cross References
Job 10:16And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
Job 16:11God shuts me up to the perverse, || And turns me over to the hands of the wicked.
Job 31:31If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.
Psalms 69:27Give punishment for their iniquity, || And they do not enter into Your righteousness.
Micah 3:3And who have eaten the flesh of My people, || And their skin from off them have stripped, || And their bones they have broken, || And they have spread [them] out as in a pot, || And as flesh in the midst of a cauldron.”
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 →