Job 19:22
Good News Translation
Why must you persecute me the way God does? Haven't you tormented me enough?

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

Contemporary English Version
Hasn't he already done enough? Why do you join the attack?

New American Bible
Why do you pursue me like God, and prey insatiably upon me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

persecute

Job 10:16 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Job 16:13,14 He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth, . . .

Psalm 69:26 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

and are not

Job 2:5 But 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 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Isaiah 51:23 And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.

Micah 3:3 You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
21Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. 22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?23Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?…
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Job 13:25
Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

Job 16:11
God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:6
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 19:28
Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

Job 30:21
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Psalm 69:26
Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

Job 19:21
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