Job 19:22

²⁰ My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

²³ I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

²⁴ by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
KJV: Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
WEB: Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
ASV: Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
DARBY: Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
BLB: Why do you⁺ pursue me as God [does]? Are you⁺ not even satisfied with my flesh?

ÅB: Hvorfor forfølger dere meg slik som Gud og blir ikke mette av mitt kjøtt?
OTB: Hvorfor forfølger dere meg som Gud gjør?
Er dere ikke tilfreds med mitt kjøtt?
B1930: Hvorfor forfølger I mig likesom Gud og blir ikke mette av mitt kjøtt?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 69:26
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
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Job 13:25
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
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Job 31:31
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
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Job 16:11
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
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Micah 3:3
You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
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Isaiah 51:23
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
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Job 2:5
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
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Job 10:16
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
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