Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me like God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
In Context
21Have pity upon me, O ye my friends! have pity upon me; For the hand of God hath smitten me!
23O that my words were now written! O that they were marked down in a scroll!
Cross References
Job 10:16If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.
Job 16:11God hath given me a prey to the unrighteous, And delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 31:31If the men of my tent have not exclaimed, “Who is there that hath not been satisfied with his meat?”
Psalms 69:27Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!
Micah 3:3Ye devour the flesh of my people, And strip them of their skin, And break their bones, And cut them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh for the caldron?
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 →