Job 19:22

²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

²⁴ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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 him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
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Job 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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Job 16:11
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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Micah 3:3
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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Job 2:5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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Job 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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